Emotional Contagion Research Paper

Emotional contagion can affect all of us on a daily basis, I want to look at what those are, and see in what ways our emotions can be manipulated without our knowing. This topic is important because many times our emotions get the best of us, or we are acting in a way that we don't really understand how we got that way, and understanding what is going on is key. Some people go into rage fits, and don't know what really set them off, and this could be because of a preexisting mood that had something set them off, or because that is just who they are. That could go the other way, in you are around someone really joyful and cheerful, and all of a sudden you go around your friends and they think you are annoyingly upbeat, is it because you are really that way, or have you simply mirrored what you have been around? These are some of the things we need to think about, I will mainly be talking about real world implications, and how this is applied to our everyday lives. There are many interpretations of what emotional contagion really is, but one of the first had to deal with …show more content…
But Kimura, Daibo and Yogo (2008) studied Japanese students and paired them up with a friend or acquaintance, they found that the emotional responses were much higher with a friend than with an acquaintance. And Bhullar(2012) in the same study discussed earlier found that the more reaction emotionally someone has, the more vulnerable to emotional contagion that person will be. Which Benazon and Coyne (2000) saw that similar thing in their study about living with a depressed spouse. The finding was that is one spouse is depressed, the other was showing considerably more depressed moods than someone who doesn't have a depressed