“…With the exception of some diversity studies that examined negative emotions, such as anger and frustration, as a proxy of the negative team process of relational conflict (Jehn et al, 1999;Pelled, 1996;Pelled et al, 1999), the link between diversity and employee feelings has been severely under-explored. In addition, there has been limited progress in understanding the role of affect in discrimination and prejudice (see Mackie, Devos, & Smith, 2000;Mackie & Smith, 2002;Sechrist, Swim, and Mark, 2003), and these few research efforts have focused mostly on the perspective of the stigmatizer (e.g., Fichten, Robillard, Tagalakis, & Amsel, 1991).…”