You may have seen the movie 'Contagion' (2011) with Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law, where a group of mind specialists control other people's feelings and life changing decisions while in an induced dream state. I enjoyed it!
It seems that Mark Zuckerberg did too, read on....
ABC News: Backlash over Facebook's 'unethical' secret study
Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand "emotional contagion" in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive.
For one week in 2012 - and without the explicit consent or knowledge of users - Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place posts into their news feeds to study how this affected their mood.
The researchers wanted to see if the number of positive or negative words in messages they read affected whether users then posted positive or negative content in their status updates.
Researchers influence people using a study.
Emotions are Contagious: See Study
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