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Good Effects of Bad Feelings: Negative Affectivity and Group Decision‐making
Author(s) -
Kooijde Bode Hanneke J. M.,
Van Knippenberg Daan,
Van Ginkel Wendy P.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00675.x
Subject(s) - workgroup , negative affectivity , affect (linguistics) , feeling , positive affectivity , psychology , social psychology , group (periodic table) , decision quality , group decision making , negative information , personality , computer science , knowledge management , team effectiveness , communication , computer network , chemistry , organic chemistry
Extending the growing interest in the relationship between affect and workgroup processes, we propose that groups make better use of their distributed information and therefore make better decisions when group members are higher in negative affectivity. In an experiment, we studied the influence of negative affectivity when information was distributed among group members and when group members had fully shared information. Results indicated that negative affectivity indeed stimulates group information processing and decision quality when information is distributed among group members.