Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious 129
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."
And other things. (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently.
Re:Depends On Who's Watching With You (Score:3, Funny)
Re:not that surprising (Score:1, Funny)
Re:not that surprising (Score:4, Funny)
and beer helps (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm not so sure the movie part is that importan (Score:3, Funny)
I collapsed into an irresistible fit of laughter. It was just a child's nervous reaction to a sudden and bewildering change of atmosphere, but some rather surprised looks were cast in the direction of the devil-child cackling away at this joyous news of death. Which, of course, just made it even worse.
Re:And other things. (Score:3, Funny)
er, I mean, of course it is, um...
Re:And other things. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:another blindingly obvious conclusion (Score:5, Funny)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1414258 [slashdot.org]
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all the best,
drew
Re:Funding Proposal (Score:3, Funny)
Patently Obvious Research Labs Inc.
Bermuda."
Dude! I think you need to build some triangulation coefficients into your funding requests and into your proposed studies.
all the best,
drew
Re:And other things. (Score:3, Funny)
So can I, don't quite see your point thou
Sounds like wikifriends (Score:3, Funny)
Doubly so for clever movies (Score:1, Funny)