'While it’s important to be aware of the emotional state of others, internalizing their distress can quickly overwhelm and incapacitate helpful action.' Here's what to try instead.
Empathy is the capacity to put yourself in another person’s shoes and is foundational to our existence as social creatures.Source: U3190523/CC 4.0
Recently on the nightly news, I witnessed the tragic scene of a Turkish father wailing over the bodies of his wife and young children who had been crushed under debris from the February earthquake. Tears flooded my eyes and my body bent into the posture of mourning; the emotional distress of a stranger a continent away had become my own.
Emotional contagion, like mimicry, is related to empathy, and is sometimes thought of as a primitive type of empathy in which one person “catches” another person’s emotions. The word “catches” reflects the infectious quality of the phenomena. For instance, before they have developed any sense of an individual self, babies cry when exposed to other crying babies. Anyone who has attended a tense football game or soccer match can feel emotional contagion at work in the crowd.
Emotional contagion can occur at political rallies, in combat zones, in mass protests and revolutions, at public killings, or in ecstatic religious rites. Within families, emotional contagion can set the tenor of a household. A sensitive child may absorb a mother’s non-verbally expressed
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