Emotional Contagion.?

Emotional contagion is the phenomenon of having one person’s emotions and related behaviors directly trigger similar emotions and behaviors in other people. Emotions can be shared across individuals in many different ways both implicitly or explicitly. Emotional contagion is important to personal relationships because it fosters emotional synchrony between individuals. A broader definition of the phenomenon suggested by Schoenewolf is “a process in which a person or group influences the emotions or behavior of another person or group through the conscious or unconscious induction of emotion states and behavioral attitudes” says Wiki.

Let me just simplify it for you .

Let us consider that emotions are a packets of Energy .

And since Energy is conserved , “ Can neither be created nor be destroyed ; only be transferred.

It can be said that emotions are also conserved .

“ Can neither be created nor be destroyed , can only be changed from one form to another.

Or travel from one person to another.

And the phenomenon of sharing of energy from one person to another is simply

‘ Emotional Contagion ‘.

Hope it helps !