Emotional Contagion – Are Your Emotions Worth Catching?

• Posted on 22nd April 2009
• in Blue Zone, emotions, red zone
• by Andrew Mowat

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Intuitively we all know that emotions are contagious. How else do evocative stories have impact on us? Neuroscience seems to have uncovered the biomechanism for the catching of another’s emotions: mirror neurons. These neurons allow us to understand the emotional state of others and to adopt to some degree those [...]

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