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The social sharing of emotion as an interface between individual and collective processes in the construction of emotional climates
Rimé, B. (2007). The social sharing of emotion as an interface between individual and collective processes in the construction of emotional climates.
Level D Theory doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.2007.00510.x
What this study supports
Supports the claims that sharing reactivates emotional arousal in speaker and listener, strengthens social bonds and propagates through secondary sharing, and that this was proposed as a route to collective emotional climates. The collective predictions are theoretical.
- Who was studied
- Not applicable: a theoretical article illustrated with empirical findings.
- Design
- Theory
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
TheoreticalLevel DConfidence MODERATE
Rimé's account proposes that sharing an emotion reactivates emotional arousal in speaker and listener, strengthens social bonds and propagates through secondary sharing, contributing to collective emotional climates.
- Scope
- A theoretical account illustrated with findings from the author's research programme.
- Caveat
- The collective predictions (emotional climate, collective memory) are less directly tested than the individual findings.
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