The ripple effect: emotional contagion and its influence on group behavior

Administrative Science Quarterly,  Dec, 2002  by Sigal G. Barsade

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Sigal G. Barsade

Yale University

Sigal G. Barsade ["The Ripple Effect: Emotional Contagion and Its Influence on Group Behavior"] is an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, Yale University, PO Box 208200, New Haven, CT 06520 (e-mail: sigal.barsade@yale.edu). Her research primarily focuses on how work behavior is influenced by employees' emotions and emotional processes, such as group emotional contagion, affective diversity, trait affect, moods, power and emotion norms, anger in the workplace, and emotional intelligence. She is also interested in how diversity in the personality, attitudinal, and demographic characteristics of individuals influence individual and work-group emotions, attitudes, and performance. Forthcoming publications include "The Affective Revolution in Organizational Behavior: The Emergence of a Paradigm," with A. P. Brief and S. E. Spataro, in J. Greenberg (ed.), OB: The State of the Science, 2d ed. (L. Erlbaum, forthcoming). She received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

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