We present a systematic review of literature examining leadership and the contagion of
affective phenomena, namely emotion, mood, and affect. Specifically, an inductive thematic …

Scholars from a variety of disciplines—neuroscience, biology, social psychology, sociology,
and lifespan psychology—have proposed that primitive emotional contagion is of critical …

Emotional contagion–the transfer of emotions between people–is thought to occur
automatically. We test the prediction, based on evolutionary psychology, that negative, threat …

Purpose Nowadays, computer-mediated communication (CMC) is an inherent part of
consumers' daily interactions. That kind of communication, however, is associated with …

Virgin Atlantic is investigating claims that an air stewardess repeatedly shouted “we're going
to crash” during a flight hit by turbulence. Passengers reportedly began to panic and cry as …

A growing body of research provides evidence for the often automatic spread of affect
through groups (Barsade & Gibson, 1998; George, 2002; Kelly & Spoor, 2012). This shared …

This conceptual integration addresses how positive and negative mood states influence
information processing in groups. In addition to the impact of mood on attention and arousal …

Online food purchase over mobile apps is growing, and so is the competition between the
different apps. Any dissatisfaction from the mobile app causes dissonance and customer …

Importance Functional limitation is increasingly common as people age and is often
associated with negative consequences. Evidence of the dynamics of functional limitation …

Three studies investigated the effects of two fundamental dimensions of social perception on
emotional contagion (ie, the transfer of emotions between people). Rooting our hypotheses …