The study measured social and mood changes over time, providing evidence that mood can spread over social networks in what scientists called "social contagion.
The Conflict Junkies Who They Are: Conflict junkies are a combination of all the other types described, grafted into the most toxic and hostile contagion to ever poison the workplace.
The rates of contagion were significantly lower between acquaintances than between friends and family members, and significantly higher in women than in men.
This is called emotional contagion -- the psychological phenomenon where people "catch" feelings from one another like they would a cold.
A new study suggests this yawning contagion is, in part, the result of empathy, in which we attempt to see things from another person's angle and respond to that person's emotions.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice.
