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Emotions and groups/organizations/collectives
This week, we kick off our new series, Emotions 2.0, with a special double episode about the emotions we experience with other people. We often think that emotions like happiness or sadness live inside our individual minds. But if you’ve ever gone to a music concert in a big stadium or attended a political rally with like-minded voters, you know that emotions can move through crowds in powerful ways. We begin with psychologist Amit Goldenberg, who studies how emotions spread and ratchet up in intensity as more people experience them
Collective emotion, when a group of people shares an emotion, is often stronger than a single individual feeling that same emotion alone. So, how can leaders manage emotions, particularly negative ones, from taking over a team?
Research has shown that when speaking in front of a group, people’s attention tends to gets stuck on the most emotional faces, causing them to overestimate the group’s average emotional state.
How do emotions spread within social networks? And how do they influence individual and collective decisions?​
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Groups and politics
New research shows that people are drawn to others with more extreme versions of their own political views.
Employees often resist DEI initiatives, which of course hinders their effectiveness. The authors — experts in the resistance to social-change efforts — write that the key to overcoming resistance to any effort is figuring out why people are resisting. When it comes to DEI initiatives, they argue, people resist because they experience at least one of three forms of threat: status threat, merit threat, and moral threat. Depending on the kinds of threat they experience, they then tend to engage in three kinds of resistance: defending, denying, and distancing. The authors explain these forms of threat and resistance and then offer suggestions for how to overcome them.
What are some the psychological attributes that describe people who are politically extreme or who tend to support violence.
All media
 Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge.11.21.2023 |  Podcast interview with Amit Goldenberg 7/20/23 |  Extreme Views Are More Attractive Than Moderate Ones; Scientific American; 4.19.23 |
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 To Overcome Resistance to DEI, Understand What’s Driving It; Harvard Business Review, 3.1.2023 |  Managing Your Team’s Emotional Dynamic; Harvard Business Review, 1.12.2023 |  Building Israeli-Palestinian trust, a marshmallow at a time; Jewish News of Northern California, 11.18.2016 |
 What prompted Capitol rioters to violence? The Harvard Gazette, 1.29.2021 |  All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness; Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 6.28.2022 |  Social media helps the environmental movement to mobilise — but digital firms are walking a fine line now: Amit Goldenberg; Economic Times; 4.8.2022 |
 How dealing with your negative emotions can impact loneliness; Wisconsin Public Radio; 2.2.2022 |  New Research Reveals Why Some People Are Lonely; Psychology Today, 12.17.2021 |  On Twitter, bad news spreads faster than good; CBS News, 7.15.2021 |
 Missing the Crowd for the Faces: The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect, Association for Psychological Science, 4.30.2021 |  Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets; HBS Working Knowledge, 7.13.2021 |  Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience; HBR, 11.30.2020 |
 Are You as in Control of Your Emotions as You Think? Psychology Today, 3.20.2020 |  Protect Yourself from Emotional Contagion; Psychology Today, 6.21.2019 |  The Case for Less Solidarity; Nautilus, 6.1.2017 |
 Harnessing the power of your emotions to improve your work day instead of hampering it; The Globe and Mail, 7.24.2019 |  How people want to feel determines whether others can influence their emotions, Stanford psychologists find; Stanford News, 6.13.2019 |  Jewish, Palestinian-Israeli teens cooperate better after learning people can change, Stanford researchers say; Stanford News, 10.25.2016 |
 What is the value of Binyamin Netanyahu’s apology? Haaretz, 7.26.16, Hebrew |  How convenient; Haaretz, 4.7.16, Hebrew |  CAN WE CONTROL THE INFLUENCE OF OTHERS’ EMOTIONS?; SPSP Blog, 4.13.2016 |
 Stanford research shows how people emotionally turn against their groups in cases of injustice; Stanford News, 3.16.2015 |  WHY IT TAKES GUTS TO GO AGAINST THE CROWD; Futurity, 3.18.2015 |  Who is the dehumanizer? Haaretz, 9.18.2012, Hebrew |