title: Anger and sadness as adaptive emotion expression strategies in response to negative competence and warmth evaluations.
abstract: Previous literature suggested that anger and sadness may be necessary to restore social bonds in the face of immediate relationship threat. The present research compared the social effectiveness of expressing anger and sadness in response to a negative personal evaluation. Results indicated that target anger in response to a negative competence evaluation, and target sadness in response to a negative warmth evaluation, had the most positive effects on the evaluators' subjectively perceived persuasiveness of the targets' communication (Study 1) and on the subjectively perceived fluency of the interaction by both interaction partners (Study 2). Results are discussed in light of the social functionality of emotion expression and the importance of interpersonal emotion congruency with evaluation content.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris Descartes, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
authors.forename: Pinar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.affiliation: Université Paris Descartes, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Storme
authors.affiliation: Pace University, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Myszkowski
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000786:Anger; D004644:Emotions; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: anger; emotion congruency; negative evaluation; sadness; warmth and competence