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Upset now?: emotion contagion in distributed groups

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Jamie Guillory,

Molly Drislane,

Benjamin Weiss,

Jeffrey HancockAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 745 - 748

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979049

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

The importance of emotion to group outcomes in FtF highlights the need to understand emotion contagion in distributed groups. The present study examines the transfer of negative emotion in online groups. Negative emotion was induced in one of three group members completing a task in CMC. The data suggest that emotion contagion took place at the group level, with partners experiencing more negative emotion, more disagreement, higher verbosity, and use of more complex language in induced groups compared to control groups. Induced groups also performed better on the group task, raising questions about the effects of negative emotion contagion in online groups.

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