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Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious
Hugh Pickens writes "A report from Science Daily says that scientists have proven that the presence of other people may enhance our movie-watching experiences by influencing and gradually synchronizing viewer emotional responses. This mutual mimicry also affects each participant's evaluation of the overall experience — the more in sync we are with the people around us, the more we like the movie. In a series of experiments, researchers found that people watching a film together appeared to evaluate the film within the same broad mood and another study found that synchrony of evaluations can be traced to glances at the other person during the film and adoption of the observed expressions. 'By mimicking expressions, people catch each other's moods leading to a shared emotional experience. That feels good to people and they attribute that good feeling to the quality of the movie,' said one researcher."
The same is true of sex.
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Apparently.
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One of these days, you're going to be in a theater alone and confused, wishing that the loud guy three rows back was there to explain to his friend and everyone else in a ten-foot radius the obvious thing that just happened.
Surely you can't be serious!
I am, and stop calling me Shirley.
particularly with this "type" of film, the drunker you are the funnier it seems.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
This isn't really related to your point, but I'm reminded of a visit to my grandparents when I was about four years old. My grandfather wandered off to take a phone call, and came back into the room to announce the unexpected death of my uncle.
I collapsed into an irresistible fit of laughter. It was just a child's nervous reaction to a sudden and bewildering change of atmosphere, but some rather surprised looks were cast in the direction of the devil-child cackling away at this joyous news of death. Which, of course, just made it even worse.
"So, why do you keep giving it to them?"
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1414258
Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes ???
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drew
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Dude! I think you need to build some triangulation coefficients into your funding requests and into your proposed studies.
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drew
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http://xkcd.com/185/ beat the researches to it.
When I'm watching a movie that's filled with clever jokes, I laugh at each one. My friends don't usually get them, so I'm the only one laughing. It makes me feel out of place. I need better friends.