Norovirus, the highly contagious stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhea, is spiking across the US. What to know about ...

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE found that social media use elicits three types of emotional reactions, especially in women, signaling a kind of “emotional contagion,” which ...

Emotional contagion can be triggered by nonverbals such as facial expressions as well as by overt conversational or behavioral cues: A smile can spread from one person to another, and someone who ...

It’s January, the month that feels like an endless Monday. It’s no surprise that January is often seen as the most depressing ...

Just as contagious diseases spread from person to person, financial contagion can quickly infect sectors, economies, and entire global markets. Germs are the root cause behind many health issues ...

This phenomenon, known as suicide contagion, is almost never solely due to media coverage of a suicide or a certain fictional representation of the act; suicide contagion is also possible via real ...

Do you find yourself easily influenced by other people’s emotions? Here’s how to deal with emotional contagion. While I was doing research for a piece at the end of last year, I discovered a ...

The Asian financial crisis, which erupted in 1997 in Thailand, awoke the world to "contagion," a new peril inherent to highly interconnected financial markets. Spreading quickly within and outside ...