Hannah is 2 days old and lying quietly in her crib in the hospital nursery. The infant in the crib next to her wakes up hungry and begins crying. Hannah starts crying too. This is an example of

A) difficult temperament.
B) emotion contagion.
C) coordinated imitation.
D) social referencing.


B) emotion contagion. Emotion contagion is the tendency of the emotional cues displayed by one person to generate similar cues or emotional states in other people.

Psychology

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