The Importance of Emotional Mirroring

When we interact with another human being, we want to like mirror the affect. If someone else is feeling sad and you're not able to display sadness, that's going to cause some problems. And if you're really on the, the, not the same wave lenth at all, then you end up being perceived as creepy. The next component that we're going to talk about is, which is kind of related to that, is discongruent effect. This is a defense mechanism where sometimes, you know, we'll be talking about really, really sad and terrible things, and we'll like, start laughing,. or people will crack a joke; there's like a discong