Emotional Contagion

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This past Sunday*, my 22-year-old son sent a family What’s App message: ‘Kobe Bryant died. In a helicopter crash. I’m in disbelief.’ That text started an intermittent 2-hour family chat between my husband and me here in London, our son in Chicago, and our other son at school in Boulder, Colorado. We shared our collective disbelief as the news reports were rolling in with more details. I’m not sure we had ever spoken about Kobe Bryant before. As a matter…