Contagious Emotions
Poli-Psych 101
English - October 22, 2020 21:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness News Politics mental health politics presidential race vote election narcissism psychology political psychology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episode 3 of an exclusive 6-episode series.
In this episode, we talk contagious emotions, how emotions are passed from one person to another, like a contagion. We catch emotions from each other, partly because of empathy. Partly because of mirror neurons that pick these things up from other bodies, partly because evolution valued the trait.
Empathy has evolved with us over time and can be contagious, like any other emotion. Fear is contagious. I'm sure you've realized. Grandiosity is contagious. Emotional pain of all sorts is contagious as is emotional literacy and emotional wellness. We pass these things to each other all the time.
Guest: Stephanie Covington Armstrong, author of Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat, a Story of Bulimia. She is a writer, speaker, mother, survivor, and advocate for healing trauma and the relationship with food. We discuss how the absorption of various messages from her family influenced her life experience.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Take the ACE Quiz (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
Brene Brown on Empathy
Richard Dawkins on Memes