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The 14 pages that link to Emotional contagion, each with the reason it gives.

• EmpathyCompared with: It can resemble emotional empathy but need not involve understanding whose feeling is whose.

• EmotionRelated: It shows how one person’s emotion can alter another’s state.

• CompassionCompared with: Sharing another’s distress is not itself the compassionate wish to relieve it.

• Crowd psychologyBroader topic: Accounts for how fear, excitement, or anger can intensify across a crowd.

• Social contagionBroader topic: It is a specific form of contagion in which the transmitted state is an emotion.

• Viral marketingRelated: Strong shared emotions can make campaign content more likely to be passed along.

• SympathyRelated: Shared feelings can arise through contagion without sympathy’s concern for another.

• Media sensationalismRelated: Arousing coverage can prompt strong reactions that circulate through social networks.

• MettāCompared with: Mettā is intentionally cultivated goodwill, not merely catching another person’s mood.

• CatharsisCompared with: Strong emotional expression can transmit feelings to others without relieving the person expressing them.

• Music and emotionRelated: Listeners may mirror the emotional tone conveyed by a performance.

• Gustave Le BonRelated: It captures the rapid transmission of feelings that Le Bon described in crowds.

• Chemistry (interpersonal)Related: Matching or amplifying each other's emotions can intensify a sense of connection.

• Social outburstRelated: Visible anger can intensify as participants respond to one another's emotions.