These results imply that emotions themselves might ripple through social networks to generate large-scale synchrony that gives rise to clusters of happy and unhappy individuals, wrote the authors of the report. New technologies online may be increasing this synchrony by giving people more avenues to express themselves to a wider range of social contacts, they said. As a result, we may see greater spikes in global emotion that could generate increased volatility in everything from political systems to financial markets.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:53:22 +0000
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