Question

According to your textbook, mass hysteria may simply demonstrate the phenomenon of ______________, in which the experience of an emotion spreads to those around us.

Answer 1

Answer:Emotional contagion

Explanation:Emotional contagion is the phenomenon of being influenced by someone else emotion or where someone else's emotions evokes the same emotions from the individuals around them. It can be direct or indirect sometimes just by conscious imagining and analysing another person's emotions we may begin to feel what they feel.

This can create emotional synchrony between people which strengthen the relationship.

Example of emotional contagion is when you find your friend crying it is likely that you will also beging to feel sad and might even cry too.