Brave New World: why I am grateful to the moderators for order and discipline.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

[Friedrich-Berthold]

For those distressed by scholarly articles that betray the depths of calumny in our digital age, this is a way boss cap badge.

[BlackWatch]

Great period photo of the men taking a communal dump lol.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Great period photo of the men taking a communal dump lol.

Camp life has its joys.

On this site, we some times have the sh!tstorm caused by defecation of the soul about cap badges and crimped prongs.

We have good moderators who tidy up in the face of this phenomenon.

[Wilhelm Saris]

Post 2: This is a favorite occupation. In volume 5 from my headgear-series I do have such photo from the RAD.

In the other thread I mentioned the existance from the Biwakordnung. This also included a small text-
part for Latrinen: one officially was not allowed to smoke there, nor to make fire and it was not allowed
to drop elsewhere (das Verrichten der Notdurft ausserhalb der Latrinenanlagen).

[big ned]

We have good moderators who tidy up in the face of this phenomenon.

Shouldn't that be faeces of this phenomenon...??

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Shouldn't that be faeces of this phenomenon...??

Why, yes! Thanks.

here is the gist of the article, by the way. Only confirms the things I have seen here for years on end.

Emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. Emotional contagion is well established in laboratory experiments, with people transferring positive and negative emotions to others. Data from a large real-world social network, collected over a 20-y period suggests that longer-lasting moods (e.g., depression, happiness) can be transferred through networks [Fowler JH, Christakis NA (2008) BMJ 337:a2338], although the results are controversial. In an experiment with people who use Facebook, we test whether emotional contagion occurs outside of in-person interaction between individuals by reducing the amount of emotional content in the News Feed. When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred. These results indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions, constituting experimental evidence for massive-scale contagion via social networks. This work also suggests that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions, in-person interaction and nonverbal cues are not strictly necessary for emotional contagion, and that the observation of others’ positive experiences constitutes a positive experience for people.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Emotional contagion....

[big ned]

Why, yes! Thanks.

here is the gist of the article, by the way. Only confirms the things I have seen here for years on end.

Emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. Emotional contagion is well established in laboratory experiments, with people transferring positive and negative emotions to others. Data from a large real-world social network, collected over a 20-y period suggests that longer-lasting moods (e.g., depression, happiness) can be transferred through networks [Fowler JH, Christakis NA (2008) BMJ 337:a2338], although the results are controversial. In an experiment with people who use Facebook, we test whether emotional contagion occurs outside of in-person interaction between individuals by reducing the amount of emotional content in the News Feed. When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred. These results indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions, constituting experimental evidence for massive-scale contagion via social networks. This work also suggests that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions, in-person interaction and nonverbal cues are not strictly necessary for emotional contagion, and that the observation of others’ positive experiences constitutes a positive experience for people.

Nothing's new, is it F-B?. It seems to be describing "St.Vitus' dance", a form of collective hysterical disorder or "mass madness" as was seen for centuries in Europe up until the 1600's when it stopped abruptly. The similarities are all there.....

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Thank you, dear colleague, you are absolutely right.