ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science2022
Emotional contagion in nonhuman animals: A review.
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- A scoping review of emotional contagion research with human subjects: identifying common trends of previous research and potential areas for future research.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Behavioral Predictors of Adolescent Anxiety During Therapy Dog Interactions Within an Experimental Setting.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Dogs (Canis familiaris) distinguish conspecific emotional chemosignals.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Pupillometry and brain-wide c-Fos mapping uncover multimodal mirror emotional contagion related networks of mice.iScience · 2026Article
- Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Owner-Reported Dog Behavior and Relationship.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Oxytocinergic Signaling in Zebrafish: Translational Perspectives for Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of neurochemistry · 2026Review
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- Emotional contagion in human-horse interactions: A pilot study investigating the role of stress and body language in emotional transfer.Open veterinary journal · 2025Article
- Emotional contagion of fear and joy from humans to horses using a combination of facial and vocal cues.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Acute and vicarious effects of social defeat stress on social behaviour in California mice,Animal behaviour · 2025Article
- Pair-bond strength is consistent and related to partner responsiveness in a wild corvid.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Alleviating isolation stress in chickens: The benefits of home pen playback and mirrors.PloS one · 2025Article
- Exploring rodent prosociality: A conceptual framework.Translational neuroscience · 2025Review
- Emotions spread like contagious diseases.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Possible relations between emotional contagion and social buffering.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Emotional Contagion in Animals: Connections and Applications.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Environmental complexity impacts anxiety in broiler chickens depending on genetic strain and body weight.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Do sheep (Ovis aries) discriminate human emotional odors?Animal cognition · 2024Article
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Abstract
Emotional contagion, the emotional state-matching of an individual with another, seems to be crucial for many social species. In recent years evidence on emotional contagion in different animal species has accumulated. However, despite its adaptative advantages and its presumed simplicity, the study and direct demonstration of this phenomenon present more complexities than previously thought. For these reasons, a review of the literature on emotional contagion in nonhuman species is timely to integrate current findings. In this paper thus, we carry out a comprehensive review of the most relevant studies on emotional contagion in animals and discuss the main problems and challenges of the field. We conclude that more research is needed to broaden our understanding of the mechanisms and functions of emotional contagion and the extent to which this process is present in a wide variety of species. Furthermore, the comparative study of emotional contagion would benefit from the use of systematized paradigms including both behavioral and physiological measures and the simultaneous recording of the responses of the interacting individuals to reliably assess an emotional state-matching between them and reliable controls. This article is categorized under: Cognitive Biology > Evolutionary Roots of Cognition Psychology > Comparative Psychology Psychology > Emotion and Motivation.
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