Emotional Contagion on Social Media Platforms: New Directions in Cognitive Science and Practice
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https://doi.org/10.18662/jsmi/4.1/22Keywords:
emotional contagion, social media, mental disorders, cognitive science, well-being, philosophyAbstract
Social media platforms have been hypothesised to be a source of mental disorders to develop, and emotional contagion has been described as a precursor of these disorders. This paper systematically explores the key features of emotional contagion as a psychophysiological and behavioural experience required for the conversion of these disorders to propose an innovative characterisation of mental disorders on digital platforms as socially construed and value-laden phenomena.
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