Emotional contagion: Improving survival by preparing for socially sensed threats

TY - JOUR

T1 - Emotional contagion

T2 - Improving survival by preparing for socially sensed threats

AU - Keysers, Christian

AU - Gazzola, Valeria

N1 - Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/6/7

Y1 - 2021/6/7

N2 - Rats respond to the emotions of others. A new study reveals how their central amygdala uses such social information to selfishly trigger defences that adapt to the nature of the danger with all the hallmarks of true emotional contagion.

AB - Rats respond to the emotions of others. A new study reveals how their central amygdala uses such social information to selfishly trigger defences that adapt to the nature of the danger with all the hallmarks of true emotional contagion.

KW - Animals

KW - Central Amygdaloid Nucleus

KW - Emotions

KW - Rats

U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.100

DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.100

M3 - Article

C2 - 34102123

SN - 0960-9822

VL - 31

SP - R728-R730

JO - Current Biology

JF - Current Biology

IS - 11

ER -