University of Amsterdam, Department of Social Psychology, P.O. Box 15900, 1001 NK Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
University of Amsterdam, Department of Social Psychology, P.O. Box 15900, 1001 NK Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2017 Oct;17:156-161. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.017. Epub 2017 Jul 19.
Groups are a natural breeding ground for emotions. Group life affords unique opportunities but also poses critical challenges that may arouse emotional reactions in group members. Social-functional approaches hold that these emotions in turn contribute to group functioning by prompting group members to address concerns that are relevant to the group's success. Guided by Emotions as Social Information (EASI) theory, this paper reviews research on the affective, cognitive, and behavioral consequences of emotional expressions in groups. Affective processes include emotional contagion and affective convergence, and resulting states such as group affective tone and affective diversity. Cognitive processes include inferences group members draw from each other's emotional expressions. We discuss how these affective and cognitive processes shape behavior and group functioning. We conclude that the traditional (over)emphasis on affective processes must be complemented with a focus on cognitive processes to develop a more complete understanding of the social dynamics of emotions in groups.
群体是情感产生的天然温床。群体生活提供了独特的机会，但也带来了严峻的挑战，可能会引起群体成员的情绪反应。社会功能方法认为，这些情绪反过来通过促使群体成员解决与群体成功相关的问题，对群体功能做出贡献。本文以情绪作为社会信息（EASI）理论为指导，回顾了群体中情绪表达对情感、认知和行为的影响的研究。情感过程包括情绪传染和情感趋同，以及由此产生的群体情感基调、情感多样性等状态。认知过程包括成员从彼此的情绪表达中推断出的内容。我们讨论了这些情感和认知过程如何塑造行为和群体功能。我们的结论是，必须用对认知过程的关注来补充传统上对情感过程的（过度）强调，以更全面地了解群体中情绪的社会动态。
