Collective Emotion: A Framework for Experimental Research

Chung, Victor; Grèzes, Julie; Pacherie, Elisabeth

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“…First, we provide evidence refining the conceptual model of collective effervescence (Rimé & Páez, 2023) and notably the role of physiological arousal in fostering different prosocial attitudes. Second, our study shows a possible decoupling between objective measures of shared emotions (the convergence and synchronization of emotional responses) and the subjective experience of sharing (mutual feelings of connectedness), which suggests the existence of independent and possibly additive mechanisms of social bonding during shared experiences (Chung et al, 2023). These results support the idea that shared emotional experiences represent a continuum that ranges from weakly to strongly shared emotions (Thonhauser, 2022;Salmela, 2012).…”

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“…Shared emotion can be defined as an interpersonal pattern of emotions that emerges at grouplevel (von Scheve & Salmela, 2014;Salmela, 2012;Goldenberg et al, 2020). Notably, previous research identified several cognitive mechanisms that are responsible for the convergence (similarity in form and content) and the synchronization (similarity in time course) of emotions between individuals (Chung et al, 2023;Wood et al, 2021;Parkinson, 2020;von Scheve & Ismer, 2013). During social interactions, convergence and synchronization can result from reciprocal influence between individuals, i.e., interpersonal alignment (Butler, 2011;Dumas & Fairhurst, 2021).…”

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Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity

Chung,

Mennella,

Pacherie

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Sharing emotions with other individuals is a widespread phenomenon. Previous research proposed that experiencing intense and similar emotions with other individuals reinforces social bonds. However, several aspects remain unclear, notably whether social bonding requires the convergence and synchronization of emotions in the group, and whether these effects generalize across positive and negative emotional contexts. To address these questions, we measured subjective emotional experiences, physiological activity (cardiac, respiratory, electrodermal) and social attitudes in dyads of unacquainted individuals who watched videos in the presence of each other. We manipulated the emotional content of the videos and the type of shared attention between participants, to test for the contribution of interpersonal influence. The results revealed that intense emotions indexed by physiological arousal were associated with the emergence of reciprocal prosocial attitudes within dyads. This effect depended on the type of attention but not on the convergence and synchronization of emotions within dyads. We discuss implications of this study for research on collective effervescence and the social consequences of shared experiences.

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Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity

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Situated Affects and Place Memory

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2024

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Traces of many past events are often layered or superposed, in brain, body, and world alike. This often poses challenges for individuals and groups, both in accessing specific past events and in regulating or managing coexisting emotions or attitudes. We sometimes struggle, for example, to find appropriate modes of engagement with places with complex and difficult pasts. More generally, there can appear to be a tension between what we know about the highly constructive nature of remembering, whether it is drawing on neural or worldly resources or both, and the ways that we need and use memory to make claims on the past, and to maintain some appropriate causal connections to past events. I assess the current state of work on situated affect and distributed memory, and the recent criticisms of the ‘dogma of harmony’ in these fields. I then deploy these frameworks to examine some affective dimensions of place memory, sketching a strongly distributed conception of places as sometimes partly constituting the processes and activities of feeling and remembering. These approaches also offer useful perspectives on the problems of how to engage – politically and aesthetically – with difficult pasts and historically burdened heritage. In assessing artistic interventions in troubled places, we can seek responsibly to do justice to the past while fully embracing the dynamic and contested constructedness of our present emotions, memories, and activities.

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Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity

Chung,

Mennella,

Pacherie

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Sharing emotions with other individuals is a widespread phenomenon. Previous research proposed that experiencing intense and similar emotions with other individuals reinforces social bonds. However, several aspects of this phenomenon remain unclear, notably whether social bonding requires the convergence and synchronization of emotions in the group, and whether these effects generalize across positively valenced and negatively valenced emotional contexts. To address these questions, we measured subjective emotional experiences, physiological activity (cardiac, respiratory, electrodermal) and social attitudes in dyads of unacquainted individuals who watched videos in the presence of each other. We manipulated the emotional content of the videos and the type of shared attention between participants, to test for the contribution of interpersonal influence. The results revealed that intense emotions indexed by physiological arousal were associated with the emergence of reciprocal prosocial attitudes within dyads, and that this effect depended on joint attention. We did not observe the convergence and synchronization of emotions within dyads, which suggests that experiencing similar emotions was not necessary for social bonding. We discuss implications of this study for research on collective effervescence and the social consequences of shared experiences.

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Collective Emotion: A Framework for Experimental Research

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Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity

Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity

Situated Affects and Place Memory

Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity

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