2009/01/01 by Bernard Rimé · 3 citations
Psychology · #Mental Health Research Topics #Emotions and Moral Behavior #Identity, Memory, and Therapy #Psychology #Emotion work #Interdependence #Emotion classification #Interpersonal communication #Two-factor theory of emotion #Social psychology #Relevance (law) #Emotional contagion #Cognitive psychology #Empirical research #Affective science #Empirical evidence #Epistemology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1177/1754073908097189
openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This review demonstrates that an individualist view of emotion and regulation is untenable. First, I question the plausibility of a developmental shift away from social interdependency in emotion regulation. Second, I show that there are multiple reasons for emotional experiences in adults to elicit a process of social sharing of emotion, and I review the supporting evidence. Third, I look at effects that emotion sharing entails at the interpersonal and at the collective levels. Fourth, I examine the contribution of emotional sharing to emotion regulation together with the relevant empirical evidence. Finally, the various functions that the social sharing of emotion fulfills are reviewed and the relevance of the social sharing of emotion for emotion scientists is discussed.