Emotional contagion or sensitivity to behavior in ravens?

Emotional Contagion in Interactive Art

The study reported in this paper is part of a larger project, Chameleon, that through a multi-disciplinary collaboration investigates the scientific foundations of emotional contagion, transforming it into an art experience. The aim is to create an emotional bond with the audience and to trigger reflection on emotions. The Chameleon art installation uses facial expression recognition technology...

Modeling Emotional Contagion

In social psychology, emotional contagion describes the widely observed phenomenon of one person’s emotions being influenced by surrounding people’s emotions. While the overall effect is agreed upon, the underlying mechanism of the spread of emotions has seen little quantification and application to computational agents. In this paper, we explore computational models of emotional contagion by i...

Multidimensional versus unidimensional models of emotional contagion: the Emotional Contagion Scale in a Polish sample

Emotional contagion with virtual characters

In social psychology, emotional contagion describes the widely observed phenomenon of one person’s emotions mimicking surrounding people’s emotions [8]. While it has been observed in humanhuman interactions, no known studies have examined its existence in agent-human interactions. As virtual characters make their way into high-risk, high-impact applications such as psychotherapy and military tr...

Emotional Contagion and Social Judgment

This study examined the influence of another's emotional expressions and individual differences in responsiveness to afferent feedback on attention, evaluations, and memory. In a mixed design, participants (N = 71) rated pictures following exposure to a "sender" in a neutral mood and then in either a happy or sad mood. Attention, ratings, and recall evidenced a bias characteristic of the sender...