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Woman kneeling on floor with art supplies
A woman with short gray hair kneels on a light-colored carpet, gesturing towards a colorful abstract painting on the floor. Various art supplies, a piano, and other household items are visible in the background.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Woman on floor with artwork and cat
A woman with gray hair sits on a light-colored floor, wearing a patterned shirt and red pants. She gives a thumbs-up gesture while a blue and white abstract artwork lies on plastic sheeting in the foreground. A black cat is visible behind her, and a wooden table with decorative items is in the background.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Woman kneeling on floor with painting supplies
A woman with short gray hair, wearing a dark blue patterned shirt and red pants, kneels on a light-colored carpet. She gestures with her right hand towards a colorful abstract painting on the floor in front of her, next to a jar of paintbrushes and a palette with paint. In the background, there is a piano, an easel with a landscape painting, and various household items.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Three individuals posing at a table indoors
Three people are seated at a round, patterned table. Two individuals are giving a thumbs-up gesture, and one person has an arm around another. The person on the left wears a rainbow-striped hat and a light blue face mask pulled down, while the person in the middle wears a gray suit jacket and a blue lanyard with an ID badge.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
People seated at tables in a dining room
Several people are seated at tables in a dining room. One person in a wheelchair gives a thumbs-up gesture, while others are seated at tables with place settings and beverages.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Four people at a table giving thumbs up
Four individuals are seated around a table with food and drinks, all giving a thumbs-up gesture. The setting appears to be a restaurant or dining area with decorative wall art and a large leaf-patterned mural.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Two women with a piano and artwork
Two women are visible in a room with a piano. One woman stands behind the piano, gesturing with her right hand, while the other woman is seated behind the piano. Several framed artworks are visible on chairs and hanging on the wall to the left.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Ellie and Xanda piano_1.2.7
Two individuals are visible in a room with a piano. One person stands behind the piano, gesturing upwards, while another person is seated behind the piano to the right. Artwork is displayed on the left side of the image, and a microphone stand is visible on the right.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Woman in Snorkel Gear in Pool
A woman wearing a blue swimsuit and snorkel gear stands in a swimming pool, making an 'okay' hand gesture with both hands. The water is light blue and shows reflections of sunlight.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Patient in hospital bed gives thumbs up
A person with gray hair lies in a hospital bed, wearing a green patterned gown and a nasal cannula. They are smiling and giving a thumbs up gesture with their right hand, which is visible in the foreground.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Woman in festive glasses and pine needles
A woman with pine needles in her hair and novelty glasses sits in a chair, gesturing with both hands. She is surrounded by blankets and a red stocking, with shelves of decorative items and a framed painting visible in the background.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Psychoneuroimmunological Factors of Emotional Contagion
Ch. 2›Literature Review
Hatfield, Cacioppo, and Rapson (1992, 1994) were early researchers into emotional contagion and its components, and defined it as the tendency to mimic and synchronize expressions, postures, gestures, and movements with someone else, and ―consequently, to converge emotionally‖ ([Hatfield et al., 1992, p. 154](/dissertation/references)). This can happen through telecommunication (e.g.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026
Two Fish in a Swirling Current
This acrylic painting depicts two orange-and-blue fish circling one another inside a churn of cobalt, violet, and gold, with a broad white arc of foam sweeping between them. The paint is applied thickly and gesturally, so the water and the fish share the same restless surface.
Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026
Red Spires Among Green Grasses
This loose watercolor painting depicts upright stalks of red and orange blossoms rising through swept green and blue grasses against a yellow-washed ground. The brushwork is gestural and rapid, with dry-brush flecks standing in for individual florets rather than describing them.
Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026
Psychological and Neurophysiological Bases of Emotional Contagion
Ch. 2›Literature Review
Psychological bases. A recent Swedish study ([Lundqvist, 2008](/dissertation/references)) of the influences of personality on susceptibility to emotional contagion, found that reward dependence correlated with all basic emotional components of the emotional contagion scale: anger, fear, sadness, happiness and love. Harm avoidance correlated significantly with susceptibility to anger and fear.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026
Theoretical Bases of Empathy
Ch. 2›Literature Review
Theory of Mind (ToM). Cognitive and developmental psychologists for decades have studied how humans learn to make analogies between one‘s own experience and observation of another‘s experience, infer the other‘s mental state, and attune one‘s own behavioral response to the situation ([Shamay-Tsoory et al., 2004](/dissertation/references)).
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026