Comments on: Catch my attitude: Emotional contagion http://movingform.net/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/ Musings and Newsings by Misagh Habibi Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:56:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Collis http://movingform.net/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-35 Collis Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:04:44 +0000 http://movingform.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-35 Thanks Misagh, I'm subscribed :-) Thank goodness for RSS, its just so damn hard to track all these websites out there otherwise. And I'm happy you've moved to WordPress too! Blogger is not ... ideal. That Daniel Goleman sure is a clever chap! I loved Emotional Intelligence, I read it thrice, I shall go find Social Intelligence, presumably it will be equally fascinating ... that is unless of course he has simply thrown a new cover on his old material to flog a few more books :-) Thanks Misagh, I’m subscribed :-) Thank goodness for RSS, its just so damn hard to track all these websites out there otherwise. And I’m happy you’ve moved to WordPress too! Blogger is not … ideal.

That Daniel Goleman sure is a clever chap! I loved Emotional Intelligence, I read it thrice, I shall go find Social Intelligence, presumably it will be equally fascinating … that is unless of course he has simply thrown a new cover on his old material to flog a few more books :-)

]]> By: Victor http://movingform.net/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-30 Victor Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:12:18 +0000 http://movingform.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-30 Dear Misagh, Thanks for the link! I am really enjoying your blog from a hemisphere away. Just thought I'd add in response to Collis' comment that, interestingly, Emotional Intelligence was written by the same author as Social Intelligence--Daniel Goleman. Dear Misagh, Thanks for the link! I am really enjoying your blog from a hemisphere away.

Just thought I’d add in response to Collis’ comment that, interestingly, Emotional Intelligence was written by the same author as Social Intelligence–Daniel Goleman.

]]> By: Misagh http://movingform.net/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-28 Misagh Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:25:45 +0000 http://movingform.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-28 Collis the good man - great to have you on my blog! I agree that the principle of emotional contagion also extends to negative states such as anger, depression and ignorance (the last of which you refer to as lack of education)... I think we only need give a cursory look at the world around us to observe that ignorance is contagious, when there is no education to fill that void. As fanaticism is contagious, when there is no education and real faith to fill that void, and anger is contagious when there is no forgivness or compassion to fill that void. Collis the good man - great to have you on my blog!

I agree that the principle of emotional contagion also extends to negative states such as anger, depression and ignorance (the last of which you refer to as lack of education)…

I think we only need give a cursory look at the world around us to observe that ignorance is contagious, when there is no education to fill that void. As fanaticism is contagious, when there is no education and real faith to fill that void, and anger is contagious when there is no forgivness or compassion to fill that void.

]]> By: Collis http://movingform.net/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-27 Collis Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:45:24 +0000 http://movingform.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/emotional-contagion/#comment-27 That is interesting. In the book Emotional Intelligence (can't for the life of me remember who its by) the author cites studies that show successful married couples are better at mirroring each others feelings - even when they don't interact verbally. I suppose thats the "rapid synchronization of people’s posture, vocal pacing and movements as they interact". What i think is curious though about this all is that presumably negative attitude/emotions and lack of education are also contagious... That is interesting. In the book Emotional Intelligence (can’t for the life of me remember who its by) the author cites studies that show successful married couples are better at mirroring each others feelings - even when they don’t interact verbally. I suppose thats the “rapid synchronization of people’s posture, vocal pacing and movements as they interact”.

What i think is curious though about this all is that presumably negative attitude/emotions and lack of education are also contagious…

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