How leader displays of happiness and sadness influence follower performance: Emotional contagion and creative versus analytical performance

By Victoria Visser, D. van Knippenberg, Gerben A. van Kleef, B. Wisse. 2013

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Understanding the positive and negative effects of emotional expressions in organizations: EASI does it (2014, background): “Another study revealed that a leader’s expressions of happiness can enhance followers’ performance on creative tasks via emotional contagion, whereas expressions of sadness enhance performance on analytical tasks (Visser et al., 2013).”
Group Emotions: Cutting the Gordian Knots Concerning Terms, Levels of Analysis, and Processes (2015, background): “…Supervisor–subordinate dyads Eberly and Fong (2013) Leader–follower dyads Johnson (2009) Frontline worker–customer dyads Johnson (2008) Lewis (2000) Visser et al. (2013) Small group Purposive groups Barsade (2002) Work groups Teams Barsade et al. (2000) Bartel and Saavedra (2000) Bartunek et…”
The emotional link: Leadership and the role of implicit and explicit emotional contagion processes across multiple organizational levels (2015, background): “Visser et al. (2013) study highlights that the outcomes of contagion processes differ according to which discrete emotion is being conveyed from leaders to followers, and suggests that specific, desired team outcomes and followers behaviors can bemanaged by the leader’s deliberate expressions of…”
Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “Negative emotional displays by leaders were also found to enhance analytical performance, but this process was not mediated by emotional contagion among followers (Visser et al., 2013).”
Contagion of Entrepreneurial Passion: Effects on Employee Outcomes (2020, background): “Experiencing entrepreneurial passion (the employee passion response) makes employees devote high levels of energy to accomplishing entrepreneurial tasks in the best possible manner (Visser et al., 2013).”
Leadership, creativity, and innovation: A critical review and practical recommendations (2018, background): “For instance, Visser et al. (2013) asked their participants to write down as many different possible uses for a glass of water.”