Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-31-2016
Publication Title
Edutopia International Online Magazine
Additional Publication URL
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/contagious-emotions-responding-to-stress-lori-desautels
Abstract
Neuroscience research suggests that emotions are contagious. Our brains are social organs, and we are wired for relationships. When we encounter or experience intense emotions from another individual, we feel those feelings as if they were our own. Mirror neurons in our brains are responsible for empathy, happiness, and the contagious anger, sadness, or anxiety that we feel when another person is experiencing these same feelings.
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Recommended Citation
Desautels, Lori, "Contagious Emotions and Responding to Stress" (2016). Scholarship and Professional Work – Education. 94.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/coe_papers/94