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Because they are likely to trigger convergent emotional reactions in observers, it has become extremely common to refer to emotions as ‘contagious’ elements. While it could have simply remained a metaphor, the concept of contagion has become central to account for situations of emotional convergence between individuals. In this respect, the primitive emotional contagion model introduced by Hatfield and colleagues in 1994 assumes that we have a strong tendency to mimic the facial, postural and vocal motor behaviour of the people we interact with. This claim resembles the shared representations framework, according to which we make use of our own motor resources to access and share others’ states. This chapter consists of a critical review of the primitive emotional contagion model and further discusses the legitimacy of considering emotions as contagious elements to describe situations of affective or emotional convergence.
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