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The social sharing of emotion as an interface between individual and collective processes in the construction of emotional climates

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Rimé, Bernard [UCL]

The study of private emotional experiences reveals that an emotion is typically-followed by social sharing. Additionally, the target's responses stimulate the sharing person's emotional expression. The reciprocal stimulation of interactants favors empathy and emotional communion. Consequences are two-fold: (1) the sharing process reactivates emotional arousal in both agent and target, and (2) it strengthens social bonds. Sharing targets also share what they heard with others, who then experience a similar need. Social sharing also develops when an emotional event strikes collectively. In this case, however the propagation consequences are geared up in a spectacular manner both because there are as many sharing sources as there are members in the community and because every sharing reactivates felt emotions among interactants, thus reloading the propagation flow. It is argued that such chain reactions contribute to construct an emotional climate in I concerned community. It is predicted that emotion sharing would impact (1) on the emotional climate in general; (2) on group cohesion and solidarity, with positive consequences for emotional climate; and (3) on collective memory, with potential consequences for emotional climate in the long run. Each of these predictions is detailed and illustrated with available empirical evidence.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 2007
Language Anglais
Journal information "Journal of Social Issues" - Vol. 63, no. 2, p. 307-322 (2007)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Blackwell Publishing (Oxford)
issn 0022-4537
e-issn 1540-4560
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
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Bibliographic reference Rimé, Bernard. The social sharing of emotion as an interface between individual and collective processes in the construction of emotional climates. In: Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 63, no. 2, p. 307-322 (2007)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/37972