Are You Catching Other People's Emotions?

We often think our emotions are just ours, but that's not true in two important senses. One is that you're going to virally catch the emotions of the other people around you. The psychologist segal barsat at wharton has a wonderful term that she calls affective spirals. And so it can set up these spirals in these small, collective groups where emotions get bigger and bigger and more intense.