Emotions are Contagious


	Emotions are Contagious

abailart

11-17-2007 9:55 AM

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emotions, emotional contagion

abailart says:

Explains a lot.

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11-18-2007 9:52 AM

nlmiller

And you can add to it the theory of the Conflict Cycle, which basically says that one's behavior, based on an emotion, is designed to create the same emotion in others.

11-18-2007 10:07 AM

abailart

That is a good connection.

11-18-2007 10:20 AM

wildcat

emotions may be described as an emergent property of interaction..

11-18-2007 12:03 PM

abailart

If you dissolve the skull you get a new powerful way of looking at self and others.

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