The Evolutionary Significance of Affect in Groups: Communication and Group Bonding

Spoor, Jennifer R.; Kelly, Janice R.

doi:10.1177/1368430204046145

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“…Indeed, the articulation of affect both in spoken discourse and in written text (Te'eni, 2001)-that is, affective communication-has the potential to act as awareness catalyst. Affective communication helps coordinating group activity by fostering group bonds (Spoor & Kelly, 2004). Our reasoning is in line with Kankanhalli et al (2011) who found that intrinsic motivation positively influences knowledge reuse through electronic repositories.…”

Section: Sentiment-driven Feedback and Its Motivating Role For Knowlesupporting

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The Impact of Sentiment-driven Feedback on Knowledge Reuse in Online Communities

Grigore¹,

Rosenkranz²,

Sutanto³

2015

THCI

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Abstract:Knowledge reuse is of increasing importance for organizations. Despite the extant research, we still do not adequately understand the ways peers are motivated to reuse knowledge with the help of wiki technologies. In this paper, we study the motivation for knowledge reuse in a prominent instance of online social production: Wikipedia. Studying knowledge reuse in Wikipedia is important since Wikipedia has been able to leverage the benefits of efficient knowledge reuse to produce knowledge goods of relatively high quality. Specifically, we explore: 1) how Wikipedia editors (any peer who contributes to developing articles in Wikipedia) communicate their feedback toward each other's work in peer conversations and 2) to what extent sentiment-driven feedback impacts the level of knowledge reuse in Wikipedia. The results show that displaying sentiment-driven feedback positively influenced the level of knowledge reuse. Our study further shows a significant difference in the level of knowledge reuse between editors who shared mainly positive or mainly negative sentiments. Specifically, displaying mainly positive feedback corresponded to a superior level of knowledge reuse than displaying mainly negative feedback. We contribute to the extant literature of online social production communities in general and Wikipedia in particular by providing a first building block for research on peer feedback's role in developing and sustaining wiki-based knowledge reuse. We discuss our findings' implications for theory and practice.

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Section: Sentiment-driven Feedback and Its Motivating Role For Knowlesupporting

confidence: 77%

The Impact of Sentiment-driven Feedback on Knowledge Reuse in Online Communities

Grigore¹,

Rosenkranz²,

Sutanto³

2015

THCI

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“…In contrast to humans, who can explicitly report on their emotions, no option for such a direct measurement is available in nonhuman primates. Nonetheless, observation research in primates has beautifully demonstrated that they can efficiently respond to others' emotions and that emotion regulatory behaviors such as reconciliation, consolation or empathic responses foster close, long-term bonds with group members (de Waal, 2008;de Waal & van Roosmalen, 1979;Palagi, Dall'Olio, Demuru, & Stanyon, 2014;Spoor & Kelly, 2004). However, although all primates thus display observable emotional behaviors at least to some extent, the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying explicit behaviors are not directly visible and therefore remain largely uncovered.…”

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The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?

2017

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For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary origin. Gaining insight into how emotional expressions evolved as adaptations over the course of evolution can be achieved by making direct cross-species comparisons. To that extent, experimental paradigms that are suitable for investigating emotional processing across species need to be developed and evaluated. The emotional dot-probe task, which measures attention allocation toward emotional stimuli, has this potential. The task is implicit, and subjects need minimal training to perform the task successfully. Findings in nonhuman primates, although scarce, show that they, like humans, have an attentional bias toward emotional stimuli. However, the wide literature on human studies has shown that different factors can have important moderating effects on the results. Due to the large heterogeneity of this literature, these moderating effects often remain unnoticed. We here review this literature and show that subject characteristics and differences in experimental designs affect the results of the dot-probe task. We conclude with specific recommendations regarding these issues that are particularly relevant to take into consideration when applying this paradigm to study animals.

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“…The sense of shared attention generates perceptions of emotional synchrony in each individual (Páez et al, 2015), which fosters a feeling of oneness and bonding with the other members of the group (Spoor & Kelly, 2004). In other words, the perceived knowledge of shared attentional states causes elaborative processing of a jointly attended sensorimotor stimulus.…”

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The psychology of rituals: An integrative review and process-based framework

Hobson¹,

Schroeder²,

Risen³

et al. 2017

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Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have begun turning their attention to the study of ritual, uncovering the causal mechanisms driving this universal aspect of human behavior. With growing interest in the psychology of ritual, the current paper provides an organizing framework to understand recent empirical work from social psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience. Our framework focuses on three primary regulatory functions of rituals: regulation of (1) emotions, (2) performance goal states, and (3) social connection. We examine the possible mechanisms underlying each function by considering the bottom-up processes that emerge from the physical features of rituals and top-down processes that emerge from the psychological meaning of rituals. Our framework, by appreciating the value of psychological theory, generates novel predictions and enriches our understanding of ritual and human behavior more broadly.

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The Evolutionary Significance of Affect in Groups: Communication and Group Bonding

Cited by 196 publications

References 55 publications

The Impact of Sentiment-driven Feedback on Knowledge Reuse in Online Communities

The Impact of Sentiment-driven Feedback on Knowledge Reuse in Online Communities

The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?

The psychology of rituals: An integrative review and process-based framework

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