Watching experiences of YouTube vloggers can make you feel the same emotions they express on their online channels, a study has found.
The research, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, found that we mirror the emotions of those we see online and we seek out people who share our emotions.
"Our research is a reminder that the people we encounter online influence our everyday emotions -- being exposed to happy (or angry) people can make us more happy (or angry) ourselves," said Hannes Rosenbusch from Tilburg University in Netherlands.
Being affected by others' emotions is known as "contagion." People also seek out others like themselves, or in this case, people with similar outlooks and moods. In psychology, this is known as "homophily."
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