title: Emotional contagion: its scope and limits.
abstract: The contagion model of emotional propagation has almost become a dogma in cognitive science. We turn here to the evolutionary approach to communicative interactions to probe the limits of the contagion model.
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8129, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut d'Etude de la Cognition (IEC), Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unité 960 and IEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Electronic address: guillaume.dezecache@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dezecache
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8129, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut d'Etude de la Cognition (IEC), Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jacob
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unité 960 and IEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grèzes
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003142:Communication; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: contingent response; emotional contagion; evolutionarily stable communication