Social sharing of emotion and collective emotion

titleSocial sharing of emotion and collective emotion
start_date2024/10/11
schedule09h30-10h30
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location_infoamphithéâtre Jaurès
summarySince the early 1990s, research under the concept of 'social sharing of emotions' has explored how emotional experiences generally extend into social interactions, where the affected individual shares their emotions with others. Such interactions are observed to foster closeness between those involved. Is this effect driven by the same processes that generate the sense of 'we' in collective gatherings and shared effervescence? Recently, a proposed taxonomy of collective emotions has dismissed the social sharing of emotions from the realm of collective emotions (Thonhauser, 2022). I will discuss this position by examining, on the one hand, emotion sharing in interpersonal situations in relation to the concept of Perceived Positivity Resonance (e.g., Fredrickson, 2016; Brown et al., 2023), and on the other hand, emotion sharing in collective situations and the concept of Perceived Emotional Synchrony (e.g., Pizarro et al., 2022; Rimé & Paez, 2023).
responsiblesPacherie, Grezes, Chung