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Emotions in Interaction: Toward a Supraindividual Study of Empathy

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Emotion in Group Decision and Negotiation

Part of the book series: Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation ((AGDN,volume 7))

Abstract

Research on emotions has largely focused on their importance for the individual. However, our survival as a species has depended on our ability to efficiently form groups with coordinated behavior. There is increasing awareness of the powerful role of emotions in cognition and decision-making. Thus, to better understand group behavior, we must improve our understanding of group emotional states and how they arise from inter-individual transmission of affect. We propose that the automatic yet flexible nature of emotional contagion in groups suggests the involvement of an empathy subprocess known as neural resonance, a common-coding mechanism in the brain for the perception and experience of internal states and behavior. We propose that cognitive processes like appraisal and theory of mind interact reciprocally with neural resonance to facilitate the emergence of group states. In this light, empathy emerges as a group-level mechanism by which humans selectively yet flexibly “coalesce” to produce group-level emotions and behavior. We conclude the chapter with a discussion of possible research outcomes for this hypothesis.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Nikita Crofton for her help in preparing this manuscript, as well as Scott Huettel for his help in designing the modified Dictator Game used here. This work was supported by NIH grant 1R21MH097178 and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship #DGE-1144087. For generous support, the authors also wish to thank The Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Brain Mapping Medical Research Organization, Brain Mapping Support Foundation, Pierson-Lovelace Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, William M. and Linda R. Dietel Philanthropic Fund at the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, Tamkin Foundation, Jennifer Jones-Simon Foundation, Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation, Robson Family and Northstar Fund.

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Christov-Moore, L., Iacoboni, M. (2015). Emotions in Interaction: Toward a Supraindividual Study of Empathy. In: Martinovsky, B. (eds) Emotion in Group Decision and Negotiation. Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9963-8_1

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