Emotional Reactivity

• Unconscious mimicry. People constantly mimic other people’s gestures, sounds, and facial expressions. We do this automatically. 
• Reacting to emotional stimuli. Because a fearful face often indicates that there is something to be afraid of, we react t...

• Leaders tend to spread emotions in a powerful, widespread manner at the workplace, with negative emotional contagion being more contagious and also common.
• One needs to be aware of the toxic and mentally draining nature of certain coworkers and avoid contact with them.
• If ...

This is the extreme form of emotional reactivity. What happens is that:

• We tend to recall past disputes with revised dialogues (when they said this, I should've said that);
• We imagine arguments that haven't taken place yet; and
• We feel that other people mak...