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Political skill and emotional cue learning via voices: a training study
Author(s) -
Momm Tassilo,
Blickle Gerhard,
Liu Yongmei
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12180
Subject(s) - psychology , interpersonal communication , politics , social psychology , extraversion and introversion , session (web analytics) , training (meteorology) , social skills , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , personality , big five personality traits , physics , world wide web , political science , computer science , meteorology , law
The ability to discern emotional expressive cues represents an important interpersonal emotional skill at the workplace. In a training study with 123 employee–peer dyads, we examined whether political skill enhances the learning of emotional expressive cues via voices. Controlling for the effects of extraversion and self‐monitoring, it was found that political skill was significantly related to the accurate recognition of emotions via voices after a training session. As predicted, other‐reported political skill was found to be a stronger predictor of such learning than self‐reported political skill. In addition, social astuteness and networking ability were the most predictive of emotional cue learning among the different dimensions of political skill. Implications and limitations are discussed.