4 research outputs found
Situational context and the effects of agency and communion on emotional contagion (Study 1)
No full textThis study is a part of a project which investigates the effects of the “Big Two” of social cognition (i.e., agency and communion) on emotional contagion. The Dual Perspective Model of Agency and Communion (DPM-AC; Abele & Wojciszke, 2014) suggests that these effects should be interactive, that is, the senders’ agentic traits should strengthen the effects of the senders’ communal traits on receivers’ emotional responses. Previous studies support this line of thinking for happiness contagion (Wróbel et al., under review).
The DPM-AC also holds that although in most cases, agentic traits are pushed into the background by communal traits, in some contexts (e.g., when the sender works on a task that should be performed skillfully and efficiently), agentic traits become important from the receiver’s perspective and, as a result, stand out. In such contexts, the role of agency in emotional contagion should also increase. The present study addresses this possibility by testing whether the impact of the senders’ agentic traits on happiness contagion will be moderated by a situational context that highlights vs. does not highlight the relative importance of agency
The “Big Two” and Socially Induced Emotions: Agency and Communion Jointly Influence Emotional Contagion and Emotional Mimicry
No full textThree studies investigated the effects of two fundamental dimensions of social perception on emotional contagion (i.e., the transfer of emotions between people). Rooting our hypotheses in the Dual Perspective Model of Agency and Communion (Abele & Wojciszke, 2014), we predicted that agency would strengthen the effects of communion on emotional contagion and emotional mimicry (a process often considered a key mechanism behind emotional contagion). To test this hypothesis, we exposed participants to happy, sad, and angry senders characterized by low vs. high communion and agency. Our results demonstrated that, as expected, the effects of the two dimensions on socially induced emotions were interactive. The strength and direction of these effects, however, were consistent with our predictions only when the senders expressed happiness. When the senders expressed sadness, we found no effects of agency or communion on participants’ emotional responses, whereas for anger a mixed pattern emerged. Overall, our results align with the notion that emotional contagion and mimicry are modulated not only by the senders’ traits but also by the social meaning of the expressed emotion
Emotional contagion and the "Big Two": Interactive effects of agency and communion on socially induced emotions
No full textThe aim of the project is to examine the role of two fundamental dimensions of social cognition (i.e., agency and communion) in emotional contagion (a process by which an emotional experience in a receiver is induced by emotions displayed by a sender)
The "Big Two" and emotional contagion
No full textThe aim of the project is to examine the role of two fundamental dimensions of social cognition (i.e., agency and communion) in emotional contagion (a process by which an emotional experience in a receiver is induced by emotions displayed by a sender)
