Emotion very generally elicits a process of social sharing of emotion. Field studies and experimental research indeed showed that after an emotion, people systematically incline in communicating their experience and the related thoughts and feelings to close persons. This sharing process is modally repeated several times with various persons, and the number of such repetitions increases as a function of the intensity of the emotion. Observational studies revealed that sharing an emotional experience elicits mostly manifestations of empathy and emotional fusion with the listener. Listeners being generally emotionally affected by what they heard, they thereafter incline in sharing it with members of their own networks. The latter often evidence in their turn a similar inclination so that a serial reproduction of the sharing process develops. This leads to a collective propagation of what initially affected only a single member of the community. In this lecture, we will examine the social sharing of emotion and its consequences in a broad collective perspective. 

• Legal notice:
  

  Copyright (c) Pielaszek Research, all rights reserved.
  The above materials, including auxiliary resources, are subject to Publisher's copyright and the Author(s) intellectual rights. Without limiting Author(s) rights under respective Copyright Transfer Agreement, no part of the above documents may be reproduced without the express written permission of Pielaszek Research, the Publisher. Express permission from the Author(s) is required to use the above materials for academic purposes, such as lectures or scientific presentations.
  In every case, proper references including Author(s) name(s) and URL of this webpage: https://science24.com/paper/28480 must be provided.