Modeling emotional contagion in the COVID-19 pandemic: a complex network approach.

ABSTRACT: During public health crises, the investigation into the modes of public emotional contagion assumes paramount theoretical importance and has significant implications for refining epidemic strategies. Prior research predominantly emphasized the antecedents and aftermath of emotions, especially those of a negative nature. The interplay between positive and negative emotions, as well as their role in the propagation of emotional contagion, remains largely unexplored. In response to this gap, an emotional contagion model was developed, built upon the foundational model and enriched from a complex network standpoint by integrating a degradation rate index. Stability analyses of this model were subsequently conducted. Drawing inspiration from topological structural features, an enhanced model wa

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702993 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature