What Is Emotional Contagion?

Emotional infection, also known as mass rickets, is the collective onset of rickets or epidemic rickets.

Emotional contagion

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Emotional contagion

Is a special manifestation of hysteria. This situation often occurs in groups often living together, such as schools, monasteries, relatively closed or concentrated factories, and other public places. At first, a person had a snoring attack, and the spirits of those around him were sensed, and similar symptoms occurred successively. The lack of understanding of the nature of these diseases often causes widespread tension and fear in this group. Under the influence of mutual cues and self-cues, hysteria has become epidemic in a short time. Most of them are short-lived and have similar forms of expression.

1. Group discomfort after vaccination

On April 22, 2010, 46 primary school students in Guangdong Huilai No. 1 School were vaccinated

Concerned about "milk poisoning", carefree children are very pure in heart. Even if it is an emotional infection, this infection does not reach "16 people have obvious symptoms of poisoning such as fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea", and it is "251 people have physical discomfort." This situation occurs in a large area, and the emotional impact is categorical. The effect of this disease cannot be achieved. If this is the case, in the future, whoever wants to poison the other party, just need to engage in some emotional tactics, say something unpleasant and irritating, and even ask a psychologist to provide psychological hints without having to bear legal responsibility. But this is simply impossible. Because emotional infections do not create "body poisoning," they can only cause some emotional distress.

Questioning "emotional contagion" does exist, especially among young children. Netizens do not shy away from medicine, but they also question the evidence and credibility of the analysis of "emotional contagion".

Mass food poisoning has the characteristics of mass, suddenness and great influence. The emergence of a certain "risk factor" (such as a chemical poison or pathogenic microorganism) in the event will arouse extreme anxiety and fear in the mass. As a result, some people will experience psychogenic adverse reactions and a series of clinical symptoms, called psychogenic reactions (also known as "group rickets"), resulting in patients with pseudotoxicity. Psychogenic response The symptoms of individuals are the same or similar and affect each other. However, there are clear reasons for their onset, such as living in the same eating environment as the poisoned person, witnessing the first pandemic case with severe panic and nervousness, or giving themselves a bad suggestion after hearing the incident; the time and place of the onset are highly concentrated; symptoms Disappear time quickly and so on.

Netizens are not calm, they believe that "emotional contagion" has topped "passionate killing" and surpassed "Sinopec Carrot" as the best explanation. "New Weekly" commented on its Sina Weibo: "Please don't infect me with your emotions, because I will be Sinopec in an instant."

Netizens of Renren have spoofed "I have been" infected with emotions "by the China Dairy Association, and transmitted emotions to every corner of life. Look at the late version first: "Boss, I was late today because I saw a car crashed on the road, and I was infected by emotions after being identified by the China Dairy Association." Let me also say the leg pain version: "I got leg pain today because Yesterday, a person on the second floor of the opposite building fell off the balcony. I was emotionally infected by the Chinese Milk Association. "There is also a hit version:" I shot Li Gang's son half dead because of the medicine next door last night. Jia Xin is playing the piano. I was emotionally infected by the Chinese Milk Association. "

In addition to making sentences, Baidu netizens spontaneously drafted a "Code for Drinking Milk", which includes not drinking certain milk on an empty stomach, not drinking certain milk on a flat stomach, not drinking certain milk on a half-full basis, and not drinking as a group of people at the same time It is strictly forbidden to drink certain milk after exercise, and do not drink certain milk when eating eggs, otherwise it is easy to cause symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea ... To avoid emotional contagion, each person should set up a separate closed room when drinking milk.