PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emotional Contagion, Mary Main, Kwadukuza
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Treated with less: mothers who described 2 or more experiences with ethnic discrimination had elevated cortisol levels. Infants tested in response to vaccination: ethnic discrimination, had extremely elevated cortisol levels in response to administered vaccines. Emotional contagion: emotional contagion: the tendency to feel and express emotions similar to and influenced by those of others. Stress contagion: physiological covariation between mothers and infants ( Mothers randomly assigned to experience either a positive, negative, or: design: controlled evaluation task; and then reunited mothers and infants, results: Infants whose mothers experienced social evaluation: strangers the dyads, and this covariation increased over time. It"s adaptive: good, bad because it teaches you when you should act in an elevated stress state because whatever the mother feels, so does the baby and vise-versa. Biological function: environment of evolutionary adaptedness (eea, as the physical proximity increases: Survival (reproductive fitness) the main reason! Social interaction: attachment behaviours that increase physical proximity.
