Emotional contagion: its scope and limits

Guillaume Dezecache; Pierre Jacob; Julie Grèzes

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.011

Emotional contagion: its scope and limits

Trends Cogn Sci. 2015 Jun;19(6):297-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.011. Epub 2015 Apr 16.

Authors

Guillaume Dezecache¹, Pierre Jacob², Julie Grèzes³

Affiliations

¹ Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8129, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut d'Etude de la Cognition (IEC), Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unité 960 and IEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Electronic address: guillaume.dezecache@gmail.com.
² Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8129, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut d'Etude de la Cognition (IEC), Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
³ Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unité 960 and IEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

PMID: 25891260
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.011

Abstract

The contagion model of emotional propagation has almost become a dogma in cognitive science. We turn here to the evolutionary approach to communicative interactions to probe the limits of the contagion model.

Keywords: contingent response; emotional contagion; evolutionarily stable communication.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biological Evolution
Communication*
Emotions*
Humans
Models, Psychological
Social Behavior