Emotional contagion theory predicts the automatic and unconscious transferring of emotions from one person to another by way of mimicry and afferent feedback (Hatfield, 1992). Research has shown that communicators who are attuned to anothers emotional cues may be more likely to stimulate emotional contagion. Because mediation requires participants to identify and attend to disputants emotions, mediators may be susceptible to this phenomenon. Results of a quasi-experimental study support the hypothesis that emotional contagion affects mediators during mediation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04252006-154616 |
| Date | 25 April 2006 |
| Creators | Gann, Erica |
| Contributors | Melissa Young |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/msword |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04252006-154616/ |
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