Emotional convergence between people over time.

By Cameron Anderson, Dacher Keltner, Oliver P. John. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Charisma, positive emotions and mood contagion (2006, background): “Furthermore, although Anderson et al. (2003) found that affective feelings flowed from more powerful to less powerful dating partners but not the reverse, it is important to examine the directionality of emotional influence between mangers and employees at work.”
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span (2015, background): “…vs. independent laughter, shared positivity, and independent positivity Relationship satisfaction Three items assessing relationship satisfaction Anderson et al. (2003) – Study 1 L, C 60 couples M = 20, SD = 1.78 State PA Ratings of happiness, amusement, and pride Relationship status…”
A Reciprocal Influence Model of Social Power: Emerging Principles and Lines of Inquiry (2008, background): “In one study of emotional convergence (the process by which social actors’ emotions come to resemble those of other individuals), friends came to the laboratory at two different times during the year and reported their emotional reactions to different evocative stimuli, such as humorous or disturbin”
7 Emotion in Organizations: A Review and Theoretical Integration (2007, background): “Accordingly, in general lower status individuals undergo greater shift to reach emotional convergence than their higher status peers ( Anderson, Keltner, & John, 2003 ).”
The Construction of Emotion in Interactions, Relationships, and Cultures (2012, background): “Anderson, Keltner, and John (2003) studied the emotions of roommates and romantic couples; emotions were measured both by self-reports and facial coding, and were elicited in a number of different ways (conversations about topics with different valence, watching emotioneliciting movies).”
Interpersonal Affect Dynamics: It Takes Two (and Time) to Tango (2015, background): “Indirect correlational support for the idea that shared meaning can lead to emotional convergence comes from research in which roommates and romantic partners were assessed twice, a half year apart (Anderson et al., 2003).”
The three faces of Eve: Strategic displays of positive, negative, and neutral emotions in negotiations. (2006, background): “Positive emotional convergence between negotiators ( Anderson, Keltner, & John, 2003 ) is likely to broaden people’s self-conceptions to include others to a greater degree (Fredrickson, 2001; Waugh & Fredrickson, 2002) and thus may enhance the likelihood of continued joint business projects.”