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Fierce Attachments A Memoir

Vivian Gornick

The author recounts her childhood experiences living in a tenement, looks at her relationship with her mother, and describes the lives of women bound to husbands they didn't love

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

The memoir was cited as the source for the definition of emotional contagion used by Facebook's experiment.

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they cite a 1990 definition where they get this idea of mass emotional contagion at scale. And this was from a memoir of trauma that was written by Vivian Gornick called Fierce Attachment.

— Episode: Rebecca Lemov (on brainwashing)

Episode: Rebecca Lemov (on brainwashing)

The memoir was cited as the source for the definition of emotional contagion used by Facebook's experiment.

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they cite a 1990 definition where they get this idea of mass emotional contagion at scale. And this was from a memoir of trauma that was written by Vivian Gornick called Fierce Attachment.

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