Can others detect the emotional consequences of our personal choices? Here we investigate whether third-party observers can detect the emotional benefits of two factors shown to influence self-reported happiness: the speed with which people make decisions and the generosity of spending choices....

We review the concept of followership with a specific focus on how followers actively influence leadership outcomes. We examine in particular research from four key areas: social identity perspectives on leadership intergroup emotion theory collective action and reciprocal affect within leader–follower interactions....

The paper addresses the complexities associated with meaning as the object of psychological studies. Meaning is treated as a multifaceted entity that cannot be reduced to a single measurable trait-like or state-like variable....

How do followers react to their leaders' emotional expressions and how do these reactions influence followers' perceptions of their leaders' effectiveness?...

Based on the notion that leadership involves affective exchange (Dasborough Ashkanasy Tee & Tse 2009) we hypothesize that a leader's mood and task performance can be determined in part by follower mood displays....

This study examines affect regulation and adaptive goals with regard to negative and positive emotional episodes. A sample of 355 undergraduate students were asked to recall an important past-year interpersonal episode of joy anger and sadness....

The self-reported experiences of five distinct pleasurable emotions (tranquility contentment interest cheerfulness and vigor) as well as the relation between pleasurable emotions and life satisfaction were examined in a sample of 173 pairs of younger and older adults (mean ages of 18.9 and 74.4 years respectively)....

This study examines the mediating effects of cognitive and affective trust on the relationship between follower perceptions of transformational leadership behavior and their work outcomes....

Working with people invariably involves managing emotions. This qualitative study examines a coaching intervention designed to help a group of retail support workers in one mobile communications organisation in the UK to articulate and manage their emotions more effectively in order to improve workplace relations and motivation....

The current study draws on attachment theory (Bowlby 1982) to examine how attachment (a relationship-based trait disposition) and the interaction between attachment and emotion regulation relate to LMX quality. Data were collected from subordinates and supervisors in a variety of work settings....