Emotional Contagion and Empathy

By E. Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson, Y. Le. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “In line with the perception–action matching mechanism, a number of behavioral and electromygraphic studies demonstrated that viewing facial expressions triggers similar expressions on the viewer’s own face, even in the absence of conscious recognition of the stimulus (Hatfield et al., 2009).”
New Perspectives on Emotional Contagion: A Review of Classic and Recent Research on Facial Mimicry and Contagion (2014, background): “…psychologists, sociologists, life span researchers, and historians) provide evidence that people do in fact frequently catch one another’s emotions (for reviews see Chartrand, Maddux, & Lakin, 2005; Hatfield et al., 1994, 2009, 2014; Hess Interpersona 2014, Vol. 8(2), 159–179 doi:10.5964/ijpr.v8i2.”
Emotional contagion as a precursor to collective emotions (2014, background): “Results revealed that participants’ emotions were powerfully affected by the specific sounds they produced, thereby providing additional support for the vocal feedback hypothesis (for a summary, see Hatfield et al., 2009).”
The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. (2013, background): “Humans often spontaneously read and take on the emotional and affective states of others, a phenomenon known as emotional contagion (Hatfield et al. 1994, 2009).”
Empathy and Direct Social Perception: A Phenomenological Proposal (2011, background): “Similarly, Hatfield et al. have recently defended the view that the tendency to automatically mimic and synchronize one’s facial expressions, vocalizations, postures and movements with those of another person is basic to human interaction, and that this is what allows one to feel oneself into the em”