*Emotions are spread from person to person.* This reminds me of [[🐓 Idea Farm/🌿 Ideas/Leader humility]] and the need to [[modeling vulnerability]] as a key to creating psychological safety in others when you are in a position of leadership. It's kind of like [[Receiving Feedback]] as a leader, and how your response to receiving feedback probably plays a bigger role than teaching others how to give or receive feedback. > **emotional contagion** is a form of social contagion that involves the spontaneous spread of emotions and related behaviors. Such emotional convergence can happen from one person to another, or in a larger group. A broader definition of the phenomenon suggested by Schoenewolf is "a process in which a person or group influences the emotions or behavior of another person or group through the conscious or unconscious induction of emotion states and behavioral attitudes." Mimicry seems to be one foundation of emotional movement between people. > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional%20contagion) This matters because when you enter a situation where you are needing [[Teaming by Amy Edmondson]], one of the best ways to participate well is to be in a positive emotional state. This will endow you with leadership and is a powerful attractor for people. On the other hand, if you are negative, that will also be contagious, and will come back to you. This is a key of [[Relating]], you get out what you put in. ### What would the opposite argument be? If you are just real, just be real. Other people need to be responsible for their own state. ## Sources: [Hatfield, Elaine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Hatfield); Cacioppo, John T.; Rapson, Richard L. (June 1993). "Emotional contagion". _Current Directions in Psychological Science_. **2** (3): 96–99. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_(identifier) "Doi (identifier)"):[10.1111/1467-8721.ep10770953](https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1467-8721.ep10770953).