"Mood contagion": The automatic transfer of mood between persons

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 211-223

  Neumann, Roland ^a   Strack, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0034242533     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.79.2.211     Document Type: Article

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