A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE found that social media use elicits three types of emotional reactions, especially in women, signaling a kind of “emotional contagion,” which refers to a ...

The coronavirus has upended our daily lives, causing anxiety, denial for some, and spreading fear that at times approaches panic. Yet it’s important to understand the psychology of emotional contagion ...

In my book, Emotions Don't Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil, I discuss how this appears to be related to emotional contagion and how people can work at overcoming it to lower the ...