Notice of RetractionThe state of emotional contagion research

Notice of Retraction

After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

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Most researchers agree that emotions are organized, meaningful, generally adaptive systems functioning as a whole that include expressive and instrumental behaviour, patterned physiological processes, cognitions and subjective feelings. This paper reviewed the mechanism of the emotional contagion and key moderator variables, besides, the authors presented the future research directions based on the research of the theory system.