Shared emotions in shared lives: Moments of co-experienced affect, more than individually experienced affect, linked to relationship quality.

ABSTRACT: Motivated by collective emotions theories that propose emotions shared between individuals predict group-level qualities, we hypothesized that co-experienced affect during interactions is associated with relationship quality, above and beyond the effects of individually experienced affect. Consistent with positivity resonance theory, we also hypothesized that co-experienced positive affect would have a stronger association with relationship quality than would co-experienced negative affect. We tested these hypotheses in 150 married couples across 3 conversational interactions: a conflict, a neutral topic, and a pleasant topic. Spouses continuously rated their individual affective experience during each conversation while watching video-recordings of their interactions. These individual aff

SUBMITTER: Brown CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9183170 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature