10 Weird Things You Didn't Know Are Highly Contagious

Here are 10 Odd Things that are Contagious

Cavities

If you're a mother and you have clean pacifiers in your mouth or share utensils with your sugar eating children then you're at risk of receiving and spreading cavities on the same note.

If your french kissing someone with a cavity you might find yourself dealing with a cavity soon after kissing your partner a cavity is a tooth eating bacteria and bacteria can be spread obesity.

Weight Loss

According to the New England Journal of Medicine obesity is contagious this is because when a person is around someone that is a beast their habits such as a sedentary lifestyle and overeating can become an acceptable practice and cause others.

Who lives in the same space to gain weight too but on the flip side weight loss can be contagious when people are set to compete against each other for weight loss.

Happiness

Living healthier lifestyle happiness you know the saying a smile is a contagious well if you want to be in a better mood all you need to do is look at someone else the public library of science is publication plus one conducted a study in 2013 and found that people who watched others who were in happiness and joy passed it.

On to other people inadvertently one person's good mood can spread to others at a fast rate and even boost morale among the whole group.

Disgust and Fear

In a rather gross study of pheromones using people sweat at Utrecht University researchers found that disgust is contagious when participants smelled the sweat of a disgusted person they reacted with disgust on their faces and they snipped less in that same study similar reactions occurred when participants smelled the sweat of someone who was in fear.

Loneliness

Jaunty catchy oppo Ph.D. professor and director of the Center for cognitive and social neuroscience is a university of Chicago in Illinois and David Solly a psychology professor at the University of the Rockies both state that loneliness is a contagious phenomenon lonely people tend to feel more irritated angry and mean which is a defense mechanism to protect oneself from situations where they're likely alone but those people will treat others badly and then the cycle continues from person to person creating more and more lonely people the Cure find a friend to hang out with pronto.

Itchiness

According to a 2012 study conducted by the proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of America, itchiness is contagious. If you see someone scratching an area of their body a section of your brain activates to experience the itchiness in the same area prompting you to scratch as well.

Stress

According to a research journal called social neuroscience you can pick up on someone else's stress and bad mood by simply being in a room with them.

If you encounter someone stressed out and you're finding yourself getting tense as well psychologists recommend taking a few deep breaths and saying to yourself I choose not to absorb this stress before resuming normal activities hysteria on a similar note with stress being contagious mass

Hysteria

Hysteria is also contagious how if you're at a loud rock concert and you see people enjoying themselves then your brain rationalizes that you should be having a good time as well but also if you see someone covering their ears saying the music is too loud then you'll do the same thing.

Hollywood has taken advantage of this phenomenon by having a live audience to laugh at a show's funny moments making you the viewer at home laughs as well because everyone else is doing it.

Coveting

The act of coveting is wanting something that isn't yours is more than something that is mentioned in the 10 commandments of the Bible the journal of neuroscience is conducted studies on individuals and found that an object is more desirable. If someone else wants it may be why married men are so desirable because they have already been claimed by someone else or why you want your friends iPad or that pair of shoes your girlfriend keeps sporting

Ringworm

If you're not already wiping down gym equipment when you first start using it that you're increasing your chances of exposing yourself to ringworm it's a fungus and not a worm despite the misleading name if you have furry friends at home you can get ringworm from them as well but luckily its condition that is easily treatable with antifungal creams.