The Emotional Broadcaster Theory of Social Sharing

By K. Harber, Dov Cohen. 2005

143 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Lu Wang
2. B. Rimé

In Social Psychology

1. Jochen I. Menges
2. Martin Kilduff
3. Kisha S Jones
4. A. Silke McCance
5. Lu Wang
6. Chi-Yue Chiu
7. Christopher D. Nye
8. B. Rimé

Citations in the corpus

• Alleviating the Burden of Emotional Labor (2013, background): “According to the emotional broadcaster theory (Harber & Cohen, 2005), emotional broadcasting affords opportunities for relationship improvement and social integration (Rimé et al., 1998).”
• Group Emotions: Cutting the Gordian Knots Concerning Terms, Levels of Analysis, and Processes (2015, background): “For example, in a field study (Harber & Cohen, 2005), 33 students visited a hospital morgue.”
• The Role of a Narrative's Emotional Flow in Promoting Persuasive Outcomes (2015, unknown): “The emotional broadcaster theory of emotional disclosure (Harber & Cohen, 2005) captures this process, proposing that the intrapsychic need to share emotional experiences results in both emotion and information traveling across social networks.”
• Emotion Elicits the Social Sharing of Emotion: Theory and Empirical Review (2009, background): “A field study conducted by Harber and Cohen (2005) supported the propagation chain described in Figure 2.”
• The Social Sharing of Emotion as an Interface Between Individual and Collective Processes in the Construction of Emotional Climates (2007, background): “That such a process actually develops in real life was nicely confirmed in a field study wherein 33 college students visited a hospital morgue (Harber & Cohen, 2005).”