Common Examples Of Emotional Contagion
I feel as though emotional contagion is a process where an individual or group influences the behavior and emotions of another person or group by both conscious and unconscious induction of behavioral attitudes and emotional states.
The lessons in the article are so relatable to me. There is nothing in my experience more painful than the mood swings of bipolar disorder, panic attacks, anxiety attacks and depression. For me I used to always let people energy get to me which was bad. Common example of emotional contagion for me is road rage. When I first started driving, I was a terrible ragger. I couldn't mentally handle the stupidity that I encountered so often while driving and felt it was my job to 'fix' it. I felt so angry at everyone on
the road, I was a new driver and wasn't used to the road much so I got mad all the time. I can remember a particularly one where this guy seemed anger and kept cutting in front of him and blowing his horn cussing at me, so i fed off his energy and got super upset and started attacking him as well. With all the back and forth cussing going on between the guy and myself. When it was over, I was so heated that I started honking and getting mad at everyone else that was driving close to me. I learned my lesson that day, and even though I still do cross paths with people like that, I no longer cross swords with them. Because i regret letting one person get to me that much that it ruin my entire day. I did not like the outcome of letting someone emotions affect me to make me have a bad day, so I’m glad that I learned my lesson.
It’s good to always be aware of emotional contagion because you don’t want to make a decision in wish you'll regret. You don't know your surrounding regardless if you’re at home or at work. Sometimes you'll be around people that emotionally depressed or in a position where they don’t know how to handle their emotions and they can end up confused and snapped on you so you always got to be aware. At your job it’s good to be aware because you don’t want your client’s emotions rubbing on you or your emotions rubbing of them, because if it does then the work place will be very uncomfortable. Also you have to be aware at home, because that’s your home you want to be comfortable in your own home and you want to make your love ones happy to you got to be prepare on how to handle things.
Emotional experience is the feeling of emotion, why all feel something whether it’s sad or happy we all have different emotions during different situations. There are many attributes of emotions. As stated in the book valence refers to whether the emotion reflects a positive or negative feeling (p132). This basically helps you on figuring out of you want to entertain a negative situation or walk away from it. Activity is another one, refers to whether the emotion implies action or passivity (132). This to me means is depends on how well you can control yourself in a situation whether happy or sad, how well can you walk away from the situation or decide react to it. Another one is intensity refers to how strongly an emotion is felt (p132). This could mean you how strongly you reaction to something drastic that happened. If it’s a sad situation how well can you handle your emotions when you're around people?
The lessons in the article are so relatable to me. There is nothing in my experience more painful than the mood swings of bipolar disorder, panic attacks, anxiety attacks and depression. For me I used to always let people energy get to me which was bad. Common example of emotional contagion for me is road rage. When I first started driving, I was a terrible ragger. I couldn't mentally handle the stupidity that I encountered so often while driving and felt it was my job to 'fix' it. I felt so angry at everyone on
the road, I was a new driver and wasn't used to the road much so I got mad all the time. I can remember a particularly one where this guy seemed anger and kept cutting in front of him and blowing his horn cussing at me, so i fed off his energy and got super upset and started attacking him as well. With all the back and forth cussing going on between the guy and myself. When it was over, I was so heated that I started honking and getting mad at everyone else that was driving close to me. I learned my lesson that day, and even though I still do cross paths with people like that, I no longer cross swords with them. Because i regret letting one person get to me that much that it ruin my entire day. I did not like the outcome of letting someone emotions affect me to make me have a bad day, so I’m glad that I learned my lesson.
It’s good to always be aware of emotional contagion because you don’t want to make a decision in wish you'll regret. You don't know your surrounding regardless if you’re at home or at work. Sometimes you'll be around people that emotionally depressed or in a position where they don’t know how to handle their emotions and they can end up confused and snapped on you so you always got to be aware. At your job it’s good to be aware because you don’t want your client’s emotions rubbing on you or your emotions rubbing of them, because if it does then the work place will be very uncomfortable. Also you have to be aware at home, because that’s your home you want to be comfortable in your own home and you want to make your love ones happy to you got to be prepare on how to handle things.
Emotional experience is the feeling of emotion, why all feel something whether it’s sad or happy we all have different emotions during different situations. There are many attributes of emotions. As stated in the book valence refers to whether the emotion reflects a positive or negative feeling (p132). This basically helps you on figuring out of you want to entertain a negative situation or walk away from it. Activity is another one, refers to whether the emotion implies action or passivity (132). This to me means is depends on how well you can control yourself in a situation whether happy or sad, how well can you walk away from the situation or decide react to it. Another one is intensity refers to how strongly an emotion is felt (p132). This could mean you how strongly you reaction to something drastic that happened. If it’s a sad situation how well can you handle your emotions when you're around people?