Emotions in Interaction: Toward a Supraindividual Study of Empathy

Abstract

In this chapter, we will review the contemporary study of emotion and emotional contagion, their role in decision-making and group behavior, and current neuroscientific findings on shared neural representations for the perception and experience of emotion. We conclude by discussing evidence from the group, which suggests that our neural mechanisms for decision-making and other cognitive functions exist in interaction with others used in neural resonance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)