When is emotional contagion adaptive?
When is emotional contagion adaptive? is a scholarly work by Wataru Nakahashi, published in 2015 in ''Journal of Theoretical Biology''. The main subjects of the publication include evolutionary psychology, empathy, social psychology, emotion, adaptive behavior, oxytocin, The Evolution of Cooperation, psychology, emotional contagion, cognitive psychology, and mimicry. The authors show that emotional contagion is often a more flexible strategy than behavioral mimicry in order to cope with the living environment.