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SUBMITTER: Waters SF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4073671 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Waters Sara F SF West Tessa V TV Mendes Wendy Berry WB
Psychological science 20140130 4
Emotions are not simply concepts that live privately in the mind, but rather affective states that emanate from the individual and may influence others. We explored affect contagion in the context of one of the closest dyadic units, mother and infant. We initially separated mothers and infants; randomly assigned the mothers to experience a stressful positive-evaluation task, a stressful negative-evaluation task, or a nonstressful control task; and then reunited the mothers and infants. Three not ...[more]