People naturally share emotional states. This maintains a higher level of emotional balance for everyone.
Seems like sharing emotions could also lead to volatile swings (group manias, etc.). Can you elaborate on your underlying model here?
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Was inspired by your feast analogy. The metaphor does break down though when the emotion is amplified when it is diffused, like manias, interesting point.
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Hah, yeah, that’s why I asked! I was hoping you could help flesh out the economic model behind that intuition. I don’t have a firm handle on it.
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