Emotional games: How coaches' emotional expressions shape players' emotions, inferences, and team performance

Predicting loneliness based on emotional expressions and emotional ambivalence

Feelings of loneliness, excitement, and emotional ambiguity is one of the most common psychopathological complaints, which can have serious consequences for mental health. The aim of this study was to predict the feeling of loneliness based on the expression of emotion and emotional ambiguity. The method of the present study was a correlation. The statistical population of the present study inc...

How group-based emotions are shaped by collective emotions: evidence for emotional transfer and emotional burden.

Extensive research has established the pivotal role that group-based emotions play in shaping intergroup processes. The underlying implicit assumption in previous work has been that these emotions reflect what the rest of the group feels (i.e., collective emotions). However, one can experience an emotion in the name of her or his group, which is inconsistent with what the collective feels. The ...

Emotional Intelligence & Team Performance: Does Training Matter?

Effects of Team Emotional Authenticity on Virtual Team Performance

Members of virtual teams lack many of the visual or auditory cues that are usually used as the basis for impressions about fellow team members. We focus on the effects of the impressions formed in this context, and use social exchange theory to understand how these impressions affect team performance. Our pilot study, using content analysis (n = 191 students), suggested that most individuals be...

Evolution, emotions, and emotional disorders.

Emotions research is now routinely grounded in evolution, but explicit evolutionary analyses of emotions remain rare. This article considers the implications of natural selection for several classic questions about emotions and emotional disorders. Emotions are special modes of operation shaped by natural selection. They adjust multiple response parameters in ways that have increased fitness in...