Beyond the emotional event: Six studies on the social sharing of emotion

Rimé, Bernard; Mesquita, Batja; Philippot, Pierre; Boca, Stefano

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“…Explaining the harmful effect may trigger a change of perspective, which is essential for an acknowledgement by the responsible actor (Barnett, King, & Howard, 1979) and for the consequent feelings of guilt (Rogers, Miller, Mayer, & Duval, 1982). Moreover, an explanation *even the most simplistic one *can be considered as social sharing (Rimé, Mesquita, Phillipot, & Boca, 1991) or self-disclosure (Buhrmeister & Prager, 1995), which, in addition, are both known to evoke empathy. Even when an excuse is not immediately given, at least an opening is created for a more constructive discussion.…”

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Anger communication in deaf children

Rieffe

Terwogt

2006

Cognition & Emotion

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In this study, we investigated how deaf children express their anger towards peers and with what intentions. Eleven-year-old deaf children (n 0/21) and a hearing control group (n0/36) were offered four vignettes describing anger-evoking conflict situations with peers. Children were asked how they would respond, how the responsible peer would react, and what would happen to their relationship. Deaf children employed the communicative function of anger expression differently from hearing children. Whereas hearing children used anger expression to reflect on the anguish that another child caused them, deaf children used it rather bluntly and explained less. Moreover, deaf children expected less empathic responses from the peer causing them harm. Both groups did, however, expect equally often that the relationship with the peer would stay intact. These findings are discussed in the light of deaf children's impaired emotion socialization secondary to their limited communication skills.

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Anger communication in deaf children

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Terwogt

2006

Cognition & Emotion

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“…often comes with social sharing (e.g., Pennebaker & Harber, 1993;Tait & Silver, 1989). More recently, several studies have shown that social sharing is in fact associated with most emotional experiences, both positive and negative, and that it is present in a number of different cultures (Rimé, Finkenauer, Luminet, Zech, & Philippot, 1998;Rimé, Mesquita, Philippot, & Boca, 1991;Rimé et al, 1992). The current study carries the investigation into social sharing a few steps further in two ways.…”

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“…At the individual level, sharing of an emotion with another person may go some way in meeting the needs of social comparison, cognitive articulation, dissonance reduction, and that of coping that are engendered by the experience of an emotion (Rimé et al, 1991(Rimé et al, , 1998. At the sociocultural level, it is thought to be involved in the construction of both personal and group memory for important events (Rimé et al, 1998), and the social knowledge of emotion (Rimé, 1995).…”

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“…More recently, research carried out by Rimé and his colleagues has established social sharing to be an important part of the subjective component of emotion. Their work and other experimental and retrospective studies provide extensive evidence showing that social sharing is associated with more than 80% of emotional experiences, both intense and moderate emotions (Mesquita, 1993;Rimé et al, 1991Rimé et al, , 1992Rimé et al, , 1998Singh-Manoux, 1998).The experience of an emotion involves individuals processing the event and its implications by recycling or rehearsing the event (Horowitz, 1979). This rehearsal is believed to enable individuals to gradually tolerate more distressing aspects of the event (Horowitz, 1979(Horowitz, , 1982(Horowitz, , 1986, find acceptable meaning in the event (Tait & Silver, 1989;Taylor, 1983), and rebuild their belief system, which may have been affected by the emotional event (Janoff-Bulman, 1992).…”

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“…It is typically the result of norm transgressions (Frijda, 1993;Manstead & Tetlock, 1989), with the self being held responsible for the causality regarding this emotion (Scherer, 1997). Indeed, the sharing of shame has been found to differ from the sharing of the other emotions (Rimé et al 1991(Rimé et al , 1992 possible that shame will be shared differently in different cultures as it is a "social emotion" (Caplowitz-Barrett, 1995;Mesquita, 1993), and is, therefore, more open to learning and socialization processes (cf. Scherer & Wallbott, 1994).…”

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Cultural Variations in Social Sharing of Emotions

Singh‐Manoux

Finkenauer

2001

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Prior research has established that the "social sharing" of emotions is an integral part of an emotional experience. Whereas earlier studies have focused on universal features of sharing (e.g., rate, frequency, delay), this study investigates social and relational aspects of sharing hypothesized to be more open to cultural variation. A total of 555 adolescents from the Indian, immigrant Indian, and the English culture recalled episodes of fear, shame, and sadness, and answered questions related to the sharing of these experiences. Results revealed that each of these emotions is associated with sharing patterns that are unique to them. The crosscultural differences in sharing evidenced related to a greater importance and implication of the ingroup in the emotional lives of adolescents in the Indian and immigrant Indian adolescent groups, as compared to the English adolescents. CULTURAL VARIATIONS IN SOCIAL SHARING OF EMOTIONS An Intercultural PerspectiveARCHANA SINGH-MANOUX University of Paris X-Nanterre CATRIN FINKENAUER University of UtrechtSocial sharing is the term used to describe the process during which a person, having experienced an emotion, recounts this experience to his or her social environment. The process essentially entails the transmission of information and experience of a personal and emotional nature, from the person experiencing the emotion to his or her sociocultural environment. Rimé (1989;Rimé, Philippot, Boca, & Mesquita, 1992) defines social sharing as having two prerequisites, (a) the reevocation of an emotion in a socially shared language, and (b) at least at the symbolic level, an addressee. For some time, there has been considerable evidence to show that a major negative emotional experience (earthquake, war, loss of spouse/child, etc.) often comes with social sharing (e.g., Pennebaker & Harber, 1993;Tait & Silver, 1989). More recently, several studies have shown that social sharing is in fact associated with most emotional experiences, both positive and negative, and that it is present in a number of different cultures (Rimé, Finkenauer, Luminet, Zech, & Philippot, 1998;Rimé, Mesquita, Philippot, & Boca, 1991;Rimé et al., 1992). The current study carries the investigation into social sharing a few steps further in two ways. First, it extends the range of social sharing variables examined by going beyond the commonly used measures of rate, delay, and frequency to examine the relational and social aspects of the sharing process. Second, it explores the process of social sharing from a cross-cultural perspective, in view of the fact that most of the existing data in this field are from respondents in Western European countries. SOCIAL SHARING AS A PART OF THE EMOTION PROCESSEmotion has often been described as a multicomponent (e.g., Scherer, 1984) or a multifaceted phenomena (e.g., Frijda, 1986). More recently, research carried out by Rimé and his colleagues has established social sharing to be an important part of the subjective component of emotion. Their work and other experimental...

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Exposure to the social sharing of emotion: Emotional impact, listener responses and secondary social sharing

Christophe

Rimé

1997

Eur. J. Soc. Psychol.

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In line with evidence showing that emotion involves a social sharing process in which the subject communicates about emotional experience, this article examines the impact of being exposed to such communications. First, it was predicted that being exposed to the social sharing of an emotion is emotion-inducing. Second, it was reasoned that if this holds true, then the listener should later engage in socially sharing with other persons the emotional narrative heard. Thus, a process of`secondary social sharing' was predicted. In two independent studies subjects recalled a situation in which someone had shared an emotional experience with them. They then rated emotions felt while exposed to the narrative, responses adopted toward the sharing person, and extent of secondary social sharing. The predictions were supported. Exposure to a social sharing situation was confirmed as itself emotion-inducing. Secondary social sharing was recorded in 66 per cent of the cases in Study 1 and in 78 per cent in Study 2. Both studies also showed that exposure to the sharing of highly intense emotional episodes elicited more repetitive secondary social sharing and a superior number of target persons than exposure to episodes of low or of moderate emotional intensity.

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Beyond the emotional event: Six studies on the social sharing of emotion

Cited by 486 publications

References 19 publications

Anger communication in deaf children

Anger communication in deaf children

Cultural Variations in Social Sharing of Emotions

Exposure to the social sharing of emotion: Emotional impact, listener responses and secondary social sharing

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