Emotional aperture

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Emotional aperture has been defined as the ability to perceive features of group emotions.[1] This skill involves the perceptual ability to adjust one's focus from a single individual's emotional cues to the broader patterns of shared emotional cues that comprise the emotional composition of the collective.

Some examples of features of group emotions include the level of variability of emotions among members (i.e., affective diversity), the proportion of positive or negative emotions, and the modal (i.e., most common) emotion present in a group. The term “emotional aperture” was first defined by the social psychologist, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, and organizational theorist, Quy Huy.[1]


Origin

The construct, Emotional Aperture, was developed to address the need to expand existing models of individual emotion perception (e.g., emotional intelligence)[2] to take into account the veracity of group-based emotions and their action tendencies.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sanchez-Burks, J. & Huy, Q. (2008) "Emotional Aperture: The Accurate Recognition of Collective Emotions." Organization Science, pp. 1-13
  2. ↑ Mayer, J. Roberts, R., & Barsade, S. (2007). "Human Abilities: emotional intelligence." Annual Review of Psychology, 507-536.
  3. ↑ Smith, E., Seger, C., & Mackie, D. (2007). "Can emotions be truly group level? Evidence regarding four conceptual criteria." Journal Personality and Social Psychology, 93(3), 431-446.

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