20. Emotional Contagion

Description

Explores the ways in which we “catch” each other’s emotions in interpersonal and group situations, empathy and empathic failure

• HANDOUT: Catching other people’s emotions
• RESOURCE: Emotional Contagion and Empathy: Defines emotional contagion, the roots of empathy, the mirror neuron system, the relationship between empathy and moral development, and different types of empathy, empathic failure and psychopathy.