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."

Comments

And other things.

[onion2k]

The same is true of sex.

Apparently. :(

Re:And other things.

[deniable]

I don't know. I can handle watching a movie with a group of men.

Re:not that surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

I am, and stop calling me Shirley.

Re:another blindingly obvious conclusion

[zotz]

"So, why do you keep giving it to them?"

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1414258

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all the best,

drew

Sounds like wikifriends

[The_mad_linguist]

http://xkcd.com/185/ beat the researches to it.