Contagious leaders and followers: Exploring multi-stage mood contagion in a leader activation and member propagation (LAMP) model

By Thomas Sy, Jin Nam Choi. 2013

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A theoretical framework is offered to explain mood contagion processes in groups. Specifically, we describe and test a two-stage leader activation and member propagation (LAMP) model that starts with the activation of the contagion process by leaders (Stage 1), followed by the mutual propagation of the mood among members (Stage 2). Results from 102 self-managing groups provide support for the LAMP model. Group mood convergence was negatively related to attribute diversity (in extroversion and neuroticism) between the leader and group members (Stage 1) and among group members (Stage 2). In both stages, group members’ susceptibility to emotional contagion and interpersonal attraction had positive main effects on group mood convergence, and moderated the relationship between attribute diversity and mood convergence in groups. The findings offer new insights into group mood convergence, as it unfolds over time.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “In their two-stage leader activation and member propagation (LAMP) model of mood convergence in groups, Sy and Choi (2013) proposed that the first step of emotional contagion occurs from a leader directly to followers, and that this emotional contagion will be stronger for those who have greater…”
How transformational leadership works during team interactions: A behavioral process analysis (2015, result): “This notion relates to previous findings on emotional convergence between leaders and followers, with several studies showing that followers adapt their affective states to those of their leader (e.g., Sy & Choi, 2013; Sy, Côté, & Saavedra, 2005).”
Group Emotions: Cutting the Gordian Knots Concerning Terms, Levels of Analysis, and Processes (2015, result): “Notably, once a leader has evoked emotions among followers, the followers themselves then tend to propagate the emotion further via emotion contagion (Sy & Choi, 2013) in a process that has been compared to “wildfires” (Saavedra, 2008).”
The emotional link: Leadership and the role of implicit and explicit emotional contagion processes across multiple organizational levels (2015, background): “…follower mood through contagion processes, impacting individual-level follower mood, group-level mood and performance.1 In a recent study, Sy and Choi (2013) showed how mood contagion processes occur in two stages – starting from moods triggered by leaders, which are then transferred to, and…”
Current Emotion Research in Social Psychology: Thinking About Emotions and Other People (2015, background): “Even studies explicitly investigating relations between group members’ emotions (e.g., Barsade, 2002; Sy & Choi, 2013) pay little attention to the role of social appraisal in the consolidation of group affect.”
Affect and leader-member exchange in the new millennium: A state-of-art review and guiding framework (2017, unknown): “Research has nonetheless consistently demonstrated the contagion of leaders' affect to their followers (e.g., Sy & Choi, 2013; Sy, Côté, & Saavedra, 2005).”
“You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Sleepy”: Leaders’ Sleep, Daily Abusive Supervision, and Work Unit Engagement (2014, background): “As noted by Tepper (2007) and Tepper and colleagues (2011), theory and research on abusive supervision has focused much more on outcomes of abusive supervision than on antecedents.”