Emotional aperture

Emotional aperture has been defined as the ability to perceive features of group emotions.[1] This skill involves the perceptual ability to adjust one's focus from a single individual's emotional cues to the broader patterns of shared emotional cues that comprise the emotional composition of the collective.

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Some examples of features of group emotions include the level of variability of emotions among members (i.e., affective diversity), the proportion of positive or negative emotions, and the modal (i.e., most common) emotion present in a group. The term “emotional aperture” was first defined by the social psychologist, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, and organizational theorist, Quy Huy.[1] It has since been referenced in related work such as in psychologist, journalist, and author of the popular book Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman's most recent book "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence."[2] Academic references to emotional aperture and related work can be found on the references site for the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations.[3]

Emotional Aperture abilities have been measured using the EAM.[4] The EAM consists of a series of short movie clip showing groups that have various brief reactions to an unspecified event. Following each movie clip, individuals are asked to report the proportion of individuals that had a positive or negative reaction.

Origin

The construct, emotional aperture, was developed to address the need to expand existing models of individual emotion perception (e.g., emotional intelligence)[5] to take into account the veracity of group-based emotions and their action tendencies.[6]

gollark: Crime could probably be reduced a lot with mandatory cameras in every home and every room, and we don't do that (yet...) because people care about their privacy a decent amount in at least that visceral way.
gollark: There is, however, a safety/privacy tradeoff.
gollark: Yes, that is true.
gollark: I am composing an email to my local MP, who will probably come up with some meaningless response and ignore it.
gollark: The FTL soundtrack is neat, but obviously copyrighted.

See also

References
  1. Sanchez-Burks, J. & Huy, Q. (2008) "Emotional Aperture: The Accurate Recognition of Collective Emotions." Organization Science, pp. 1-13
  2. Goleman, Daniel. (2013). Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence. New York: Harper.
  3. http://www.eiconsortium.org/references/emotional_intelligence_and_leadership.html
  4. Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey; Bartel, Caroline A.; Rees, Laura; Huy, Quy (2016). "Assessing collective affect recognition via the Emotional Aperture Measure". Cognition and Emotion. 30 (1): 117–133. doi:10.1080/02699931.2015.1015968. PMID 25809581.
  5. Mayer, J. Roberts, R., & Barsade, S. (2007). "Human Abilities: emotional intelligence." Annual Review of Psychology, 507-536.
  6. Smith, E.; Seger, C.; Mackie, D. (2007). "Can emotions be truly group level? Evidence regarding four conceptual criteria". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 93 (3): 431–446. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.93.3.431. PMID 17723058.
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