Cross-National Explorations of the Impact of Affect at Work Using the State-Trait Emotion Measure: A Coordinated Series of Studies in the United States, China, and Romania (original) (raw)

The Experience, Expression and Management of Emotion at Work

Psychology at Work Edited by P. Warr, 2002

Emotions are intrinsic to everyday experience inside and outside work, both colouring experience and shaping behaviour. Three key aspects of emotion that influence well-being and behaviour at work will be considered here: emotional experiences (such as feeling angry, embarrassed, excited or proud), the ways in which people express their emotions, and the ways in which they manage their own and other people's emotions.

Trends and developments: research on emotions

2004

Although there have been decades of intensive research on different facets of emotions (for an overview of current research topics see Davidson et al., 2003; Lewis and Haviland-Jones, 2000), we do not know much about the emotional experiences people usually have in their daily lives. In particular there is a lack of knowledge about the "incidence" of emotions in ordinary daily !ife. Therefore, the research questions of Scherer and his colleagues (this issue) about the probability of the occurrence of particular emotions during an ordinary day, about potential "risk factors", 1 respective ly moderator variables and typical appraisal and reaction patterns, are of high interest. To answer these questions Scherer et al. used a population-survey methodo logy by which they were able to collect data from more than 1,000 German-and French-speaking Swiss adults. Participants were asked to report an emotional event that happened "yesterday". We t h an k lan Law for h is he1p i n improvi ng t he Eng lish of t his art icle.

Trends and developments: research on emotions Courants et tendances: recherche sur les émotions

Defining ''emotion'' is a notorious problem. Without consensual conceptualization and operationalization of exactly what phenomenon is to be studied, progress in theory and research is difficult to achieve and fruitless debates are likely to proliferate. A particularly unfortunate example is William James's asking the question ''What is an emotion?'' when he really meant ''feeling'', a misnomer that started a debate which is still ongoing, more than a century later. This contribution attempts to sensitize researchers in the social and behavioral sciences to the importance of definitional issues and their consequences for distinguishing related but fundamentally different affective processes, states, and traits. Links between scientific and folk concepts of emotion are explored and ways to measure emotion and its components are discussed.

What are Emotions? Structure and Function of Emotions

Studia Humana, 2016

This paper attempts to coin a stipulative definition of “emotions” to determine their functions. In this sense, “emotion” is a complex phenomenon consisting of an accurate (reliable) determination of the state of affairs in relation to the state of the subject and specific “points of adaptation”. Apart from the cognitive aspect, this phenomenon also includes behavior, physiological changes and expressions (facial expression, voice, posture), feelings, and “execution” of emotions in the nervous system. Emotions fulfill informative, calibrating, identifying, existential, and motivating functions. Emotions capture the world as either positive or negative, important or unimportant, and are used to determine and assign weightings (to set up a kind of hierarchy). They emerge automatically (involuntarily), are difficult (or hardly possible) to control and are (to some extent) influenced by culture.