John T Cacioppo

Elaine Hatfield

Richard L Rapson

Cacioppo Hatfield

When people are in a certain mood, whether elated or depressed, that mood is often communicated to others. When we are talking to someone who is depressed it may make us feel depressed, whereas if we talk to someone who is feeling self-confident and buoyant we are likely to feel good about ourselves. This phenomenon, known as emotional contagion, is identified here, and compelling evidence for its effects is offered from a variety of disciplines--social and developmental psychology, history, cross-cultural psychology, experimental psychology, and psychopathology. The authors propose a simple mechanism to account for the process of contagion. They argue that people, in their everyday encounters, tend automatically and continuously to synchronize with the facial expressions, voices, postures, movements, and instrumental emotional behaviors of others. Emotional experiences are affected, moment-to-moment, by the feedback from such mimicry. In a series of orderly chapters, the authors provide observational and laboratory evidence to support their propositions. They then offer practical suggestions for clinical psychologists, physicians, husbands and wives, parents, and professionals who wish to become better at shaping the emotional tone of social encounters.

Emotional Contagion

William H. Patrick

Einsamkeit ist ein erstaunlich verbreitetes und für die Betroffenen wie auch für die Gesellschaft sehr ernstes Problem. Dieses Buch stellt nicht nur dar, welche überraschenden Auswirkungen jene allzu menschlich erscheinende Erfahrung hat, sondern vermittelt dem Leser auch eine ganz neue Vorstellung davon, welche Bedeutung soziale Einbindung für uns Menschen hat und wie sie uns vor schmerzlicher Isolation schützen kann. Und es zeigt, wie wir dem Teufelskreis der Einsamkeit entrinnen können, um gesünder und glücklicher zu werden.

Woher sie kommt, was sie bewirkt, wie man ihr entrinnt

Einsamkeit

Richard Petty

It has been over 10 years since we initiated work on our first series of collaborative experiments. As graduate students, we had great fun planning, conducting, and writing this research (Petty & Cacioppo, 1977). We enjoyed arguing with each other at our initial meeting in 1973 and have sub sequently become best friends, but neither of us suspected at the time that we would or could actively maintain a research collaboration over the next decade, or that we would now find ourselves in a position to write this monograph. As we note in Chapter 1, we began our studies of persuasion at a time when social psychology was in "crisis," and interest in research on attitude change in particular was declining. As we write this, we are aware of six new volumes on persuasion that are in press or in preparation and that should appear over the next few years. In retrospect, it is not so surprising that research on attitudes and persuasion would reemerge as a central concern of social psychology. We believe that human feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, whether in the domain of interpersonal relations (e. g. , marriage, aggression), politics (e. g. , voting, revolution), health (e. g. , following a medical regimen), or economics (e. g. , consumer purchases) are greatly influenced by the evaluations people have of other people, objects, and issues. Furthermore, evaluations (attitudes) are influenced by affect, cognition, and behavior.

Central and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Change

Communication and Persuasion

Richard E Petty

"This classic text surveys a number of different theoretical approaches to the related phenomena of attitude and belief change. These theories are grouped into seven major approaches, each presented an"

John T Cacioppo

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