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Querying "emotional entrainment" in Google, I found reference to the book "Interaction Ritual Chains" by Randall Collins, Ph.D., professor in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/People/collinsrandall.html
From the preface of the book:
"... Rituals create symbols in first-order, face-to-face interaction, which constitutes the starting point in an array of further second- and third-order circuits in which symbols can be recirculated. Once infused with situational emotion, symbols can be circulated through networks of conversation, and internalized as thinking within the individual circuits of the mind. Ultimately the intensity of human concern with symbols, ranging from enthusiastic and obsessive to bored and alienated, depends upon periodic repetition of IRs [interaction rituals]; how meaningful these recirculated symbols are depends on what level of emotional intensity is reached in the first-order social encounters in which those symbols are used...
"... [A] sucessful social ritual makes the individual participant feel strong, confident, full of impulses to take the initiative. Part of the collective effervescense of a highly focused, emotionally entrained interaction is apportioned to the individuals, who come away from the situation carrying the group-aroused emotion for a time in their bodies. Conversely, a weak or failed social ritual lowers the confidence and initiative of participants -- it lowers their EE [emotional energy] -- as does being in the position of an outsider or victim who is emotionally battered by someone else's interaction ritual that does not allow one inside. An interaction ritual is an emotion transformer, taking some emotions as ingredients, and turning them into other emotions as outcomes. Short-term situational emotions carry accross situations, in the form of emotional energy, with its hidden resonance of group membership, setting up chains of interaction rituals over time." (Copyright 2004 by Princeton University Press) http://books.google.com/books?id=3NirI6P8f5EC&pg=PR12&lpg=PR12&dq=%3D%22emotionally+entrained%22&source=web&ots=fFOI0Qq9G1&sig=FGtdpDOWODH-g0vqGzwvO69LNIg&hl=en
The same keyword search retrieved this resource also: http://www.phillwebb.net/Topics/Meta/Theory.htm
From the preface of the book:
"... Rituals create symbols in first-order, face-to-face interaction, which constitutes the starting point in an array of further second- and third-order circuits in which symbols can be recirculated. Once infused with situational emotion, symbols can be circulated through networks of conversation, and internalized as thinking within the individual circuits of the mind. Ultimately the intensity of human concern with symbols, ranging from enthusiastic and obsessive to bored and alienated, depends upon periodic repetition of IRs [interaction rituals]; how meaningful these recirculated symbols are depends on what level of emotional intensity is reached in the first-order social encounters in which those symbols are used...
"... [A] sucessful social ritual makes the individual participant feel strong, confident, full of impulses to take the initiative. Part of the collective effervescense of a highly focused, emotionally entrained interaction is apportioned to the individuals, who come away from the situation carrying the group-aroused emotion for a time in their bodies. Conversely, a weak or failed social ritual lowers the confidence and initiative of participants -- it lowers their EE [emotional energy] -- as does being in the position of an outsider or victim who is emotionally battered by someone else's interaction ritual that does not allow one inside. An interaction ritual is an emotion transformer, taking some emotions as ingredients, and turning them into other emotions as outcomes. Short-term situational emotions carry accross situations, in the form of emotional energy, with its hidden resonance of group membership, setting up chains of interaction rituals over time." (Copyright 2004 by Princeton University Press) http://books.google.com/books?id=3NirI6P8f5EC&pg=PR12&lpg=PR12&dq=%3D%22emotionally+entrained%22&source=web&ots=fFOI0Qq9G1&sig=FGtdpDOWODH-g0vqGzwvO69LNIg&hl=en
The same keyword search retrieved this resource also: http://www.phillwebb.net/Topics/Meta/Theory.htm
