Emotional contagion sweeps Facebook, finds new study
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 19:20
in Psychology & Sociology
When it hasn't been your day – your week, your month, or even your year – it might be time to turn to Facebook friends for a little positive reinforcement. Emotions can spread contagiously among users of online social networks, both positive and negative, researchers report. The experiment is the first to suggest that emotions expressed via online social networks influence the moods of others, they say.