2013
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613511499
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Are You Feeling What I’m Feeling? Emotional Similarity Buffers Stress

Abstract: We examine the idea that it is beneficial for people in threatening situations to affiliate with others who are experiencing similar, relative to dissimilar, emotions. Pairs of participants waited together and then engaged in a laboratory stressor (i.e., giving a speech). We created an index of each pair's emotional similarity using participants' emotional states. We also measured how threatening participants perceived the speech task to be (i.e., whether they had high vs. low dispositional fear of public spea… Show more

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“…This finding is consistent with prior research on similarity in emotions (e.g., Townsend et al, 2014). When an individual experiences high stress, it may be adaptive for closer others to display similar emotions to the individual.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…This finding is consistent with prior research on similarity in emotions (e.g., Townsend et al, 2014). When an individual experiences high stress, it may be adaptive for closer others to display similar emotions to the individual.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…These qualities might be responsible for the increasing use of distinctive indices of similarity (Baird et al, 2006; Bleidorn, Kandler, Riemann, Angleitner, & Spinath, 2012; Furr, 2008; Klimstra et al, 2010; Rogers & Biesanz, 2015). However, many investigators continue to use similarity indices that do not remove the normative profile (Boer et al, 2011; Decuyper, De Bolle, & De Fruyt, 2012; Gonzaga et al, 2010; Terracciano, McCrae, & Costa, 2010; Townsend et al, 2013), and this seems due to a sense that distinctive indices eliminate something that is not an artifact. 4 In our example, the concern is that we are removing meaningful ways in which Hermione and Ron really are similar to one another.…”
Section: The Correlates Of Similarity Greatly Depend On How It Is Indmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research also finds that the types of similarity that are beneficial may also be wide-ranging, including similarity in values, emotions, personality traits, behaviors, and attitudes (C. Anderson, Keltner, & John, 2003; Barni, Knafo, Ben-Arieh, & Haj-Yahia, 2014; Boer et al, 2011; Furr & Funder, 2004; Townsend, Kim, & Mesquita, 2013). These findings have been pointed to as evidence for the long-standing theoretical position that similarities of various types facilitate positive outcomes more generally (Byrne, 1971; Izard, 1960; Roberts et al, 2001).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Highly self-efficacious students may be attractive as helpers and advice givers but may also make others feel uncertain. In challenging situations, students may feel more comfortable interacting with someone with similar feelings or beliefs (Townsend et al 2014). We explore how academic achievement and self-efficacy affect choices in academic support and advice relationships in an FLC.…”
Section: Academic and Social Support Relationshipsmentioning
confidence: 99%