Team members’ emotional displays as indicators of team functioning

Team members' emotional displays as indicators of team functioning.

Emotions are inherent to team life, yet it is unclear how observers use team members' emotional expressions to make sense of team processes. Drawing on Emotions as Social Information theory, we propose that observers use team members' emotional displays as a source of information to predict the team's trajectory. We argue and show that displays of sadness elicit more pessimistic inferences rega...

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For the past year the University of Rhode Island's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Team has been working to develop an AUV capable of satisfying the mission requirements as stated by AUVSI and ONR's AUV 7 Annual Competition Rules. The vehicle, named Prowler V, is a continuation of the vehicle developed and modified over the past 4 years. The Prowler V offers increased processing and power e...

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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and, more recently, its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) are foundational technologies of secure communications on the Internet. Secure web browsing, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), and other secure protocols (such as SFTP and SSH) leverage TLS to ensure the privacy of their communications. To meet the needs of software developers, many libraries have been cre...

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Motivation, Personal Satisfaction of Team Members and Conformity to Team Norms as Predictors of Team

The study investigated the Relationship between Motivation, Personal Satisfaction of Team Members, Conformity to Teams Norms and Team Performance. Two hypotheses were postulated and tested. The survey research design was adopted to conduct the study. The sample included two thousand and eighty-eight athletes (players of six sports) surveyed through a purposive sampling techniques from among the...