Emotional Contagion

The theory of emotional contagion has been an interest of many writers both in the field of psychology and science. The root is not clear whether who

Joy and sadness are two of the strongest human emotions. The appeal towards feeling both joy and sadness was incredibly effective. Humans are emotional creatures who are able to relate to the pain and happiness of others. Watching another person feel the agony of loss, as well as, experience the kindness of another individual, brings about memories and connections to those emotions. Displaying feelings of both joy and sadness was a magnification of the way human’s emotional appeal

In addition, argues that the cues associated with FTF interaction are easier to process and provide more reinforcement during social interactions. It was only participants in the FTF interaction condition who displayed intensified satisfaction of basic social needs and increased positive mood, compared to participants in the virtual interaction and no interaction conditions. (There are a variety of reasons as to why FTF communication satisfy social belonging needs more than computer-mediated social interactions. First, FTF interactions involve individuals who are located in physical close proximity and are able to see and here one another. Physical proximity is an indicator of inclusion and acceptance. Second, the synchronicity is high, allowing individuals to interact quickly with one another, facilitating the effortlessness of the interaction. Third, facial expressions are available during FTF interaction, enhancing the connection. Fourth, interaction partners’ body language expresses feelings and emotions. FTF interaction partners also have access to one another’s oral speech and are able to engage using eye contact, which is vital for successful communication. Lastly, FTF interactions allow for the transmission of cues (e.g., pheromones and light touch). FTF, as opposed to virtual social interactions facilitate an amplified sense of social need satisfaction.)

In the article “Is a Bad Mood Contagious” by Michael Lenneville gives scientific answers why caughting a bad mood is contagious. The first example from “Is a Bad Mood Contagious” is in paragraph one stating “Studies suggest, however, that others’ moods may be as easy to catch as their germs.” The second example from “Is a Bad Mood Contagious” is in paragraph two it states “Psychologists call this phenomenon emotional contagion, a three-step process through which one

In the passage “Facebook Makes US Happy/Sad”, author Sheila Raju argues that people’s emotions can be influence by the emotions of Facebook friends. The online updates on Facebook or other social media app can influence the users negatively and cause problems. Raju states, “When users saw negative news feeds or updates about others on Facebook, they produced fewer positive posts and more negative ones.” This show one of the ways that the users are being affected by others online posts. Although some posts can make the readers happy, posts can also make the readers sad and lead to different problems.

In addition, this study hypothesized that if one mediated the effect of optimism on health outcomes by removing the effect of a person’s affectivity inclination, negative or positive, that optimism would not be shown as the correlation variable. Rather the authors hypothesized,

Have you ever walk into a room where everyone is in a bad mood? What would be your reaction? I can say from personal experience that I would be in a bad mood as well. Emotional contagion is defined as the fact that we pick up the moods and attitudes of other people around us. Although, people don’t usually act the same as those around them, moods of the surrounding people can be contagious. Facial feedback theory explains that facial expressions provide feedback to the brain. In other ways, if you convey a happy expression it would send signals to your brain and it would actually make you feel happier, the same goes if you have a sad facial expression. Both theories are pretty similar in the sense that the environment around us can have an

Imagine a world in which everyone believes it is in their best interest to suppress their feelings. Most people in the modern world would undoubtedly find this prospect awful and depressing. After all, our phenomenon of instantaneous communication was conceived with the belief that humans desperately want and need to share their emotions and ideas. The widespread popularity of Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking websites seem to affirm this assumption. If one was to compare the Puritan setting of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter with this hypothetical world, they would soon realize the two

Viral sharing is the act of mass circulation of a particular meme, video or message on social media (Wilson 2005, p.1). Nelson-Field, Riebe and Sharp (2013, p. 13) describe the way an individual’s emotional response drives the process of viral content. They found emotions, but in particular extreme emotions, play an important role towards the selection of content that is most shared. A study by Nelson-Field, Riebe and Newstead (2013 p. 208-209) analysed 800 videos using a list of emotions developed to capture both low and high arousal while accounting for both positive and negative themes to determine the characteristics that resulted in content becoming viral. The results determined that low arousal videos and videos containing positive content accounted for three quarters of the videos studied. Additionally, there was no significant correlation between viral sharing and positive or negative content. However, videos that evoke high emotions are shared on a larger scale than videos drawing a low emotional response. Surprisingly, non-commercial material was as successful as commercial videos in creating viral sharing (Nelson-Field, Riebe and Newstead 2013 p. 210). Content on Facebook that is effective in drawing a strong emotional response is shared more widely and quickly, proving to have a stronger impact

In the article, Enhancing Interpersonal Communication: Positive Mood Effects, Donna Webster Nelson discusses the influence the affective state of the communicator has on the participants. A positive affect can lead to empathy and enhance perspective between communicators (Nelson, 2016). Further noted in her study is the effect positive affect has on perspective taking. Such affect creates a positive mood that further enables shared viewpoints (Nelson, 2016). Dr. Nelson theorized that positive mood would have an effect on communication, which was later found it did. Positive mood promoted greater interpersonal interactions and help prevent misunderstandings (Nelson,

I chose an interval variable, and in this case the interval variable is the polarity score determined by SentiStrength represented by t (Ferrara 3). The conceptual definition the author gave was that emotions can spread through empathy in various methods and depending on the social medium we employ it can spread faster, becoming more potent. Thus manipulating others Focusing on social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, the author tried to connect the “micro-communications” (Ferrara 1) we take part in online to the emotional states we convey and spread to others to feel and share across several social media outlets. Ferrara operationalized this emotional output using an algorithm to measure positive and negative emotional sentiments through

The results were shocking; the individuals who had been given the artificial hormone gave “48% more to charity” than those who received the placebo. Thus, an increase of Oxytocin levels in the body as a result of emotional activity and the engagement of social media, an increase of “reciprocal” and “generous” the individuals became. With such biological and psychological responses, it makes sense that options to “like” and “share” are incorporated into social media. The link between the internal reactions and relation to the social media options promotes a cycle of continuity of social media usage. This activity results in the individual having a positive experience and enhancing the probability of maintaining social device connection throughout the day, and thereby promoting “feedback loops,” which are what make complex-adaptive systems adaptive and without them no system has any way of adapting to changing circumstances and, hence will, at some point, not fit its environment and, therefore will not survive. According to Steven Johnson, (2001, p. 133) "All decentralised systems rely extensively on feedback, for both growth and self-regulation." Moreover, because a complex adaptive system is continually changing, so must all the other systems that interact with it in order for the relationship is to continue to exit. This phenomenon can be seen as a process to preserve the self, the group, society and can be considered the source of co-evolution. In reality, feedback loops operate at multiple levels simultaneously and in a sense, our personalities and the way we act are partially the sum of all these “invisible feedback mechanisms” (Johnson, 2001, p.

This paper will go over the basic tenets of Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT) of communication and analyze how this theory is applied and tested in other communication studies. First, we shall define what the EVT is and it’s implications for communication studies using the two studies, “Being unfriended on Facebook: An application of Expectancy Violation Theory” and “The presence of cell phones in romantic partner face-to-face interactions: An expectancy violation theory approach”. Next we shall examine the study “A Psychophysiological Examination of Cognitive Processing of and Affective Responses to Social Expectancy Violations” on the neurological effects of negative expectation violations. The study “Why Emotions Matter: Expectancy

Provide a conclusion with reasons which answers the question “Do the ends justify the means?”

The method of the study was that the participants were asked to respond to an online questionnaire on emotion display norms. There were two groups involves, one with culturally homogenous and another multi cultural team and that they focused on instant messages as a way of communication. It is known to be the most similar to face to face communication than any other text based medium based on it’s high synchronicity and parallelism. The result of the study is that shared expectations regarding expressions of emotion emerge among individuals who differ in their nationalities. Multi cultural modern teams will be significant in modern organizations of today’s society by there trust and collaboration between members should be present in order to work effectively together. Fourth, the group performed by submitting an envelope filled with information requested by the instructor. The members of the Avengers obliged to the task given by the leader, M4. There was considerably less conflict and it is evident that the group has matured such as the ease of agreement on the time and area for meet-ups. Lastly, adjourning was planned as the instructor informed the members about the last group activity and the members knew it would be the last time the Avengers has to collaborate as a