New Perspectives on Emotional Contagion: A Review of Classic and Recent Research on Facial Mimicry and Contagion
By E. Hatfield, L. Bensman, Paul Thornton, Richard L. Rapson. 2014
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Recently, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, using a variety of scientific techniques, have begun to study the influence of attention, facial mimicry, and social context on emotional contagion. In this paper we will review the classic evidence documenting the role of attention, facial mimicry, and feedback in sparking primitive emotional contagion. Then we will discuss the new evidence which scholars have amassed to help us better understand the role of facial mimicry in fostering contagion and the ability to “read” others’ thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Finally, we will briefly speculate as to where future research might be headed.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “…regard to “primitive emotional contagion,” there is copious evidence showing that the first part of this process consists of automatic, subconscious mimicry and synchrony of facial expressions, postures, vocalizations, and movement within dyads and groups (for a review, see Hatfield et al., 2014).”
- Detecting, Preventing, and Mitigating Online Firestorms in Brand Communities (2019, background): “However, faced with the information overload that tends to characterize communication exchanges on social media platforms, customers might not elaborate in detail on the arguments and instead could resort to heuristic processing (Hatfield et al. 2014).”