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. 2014 Aug;40(8):1012-1023.
doi: 10.1177/0146167214533388. Epub 2014 Apr 30.

Responsiveness to the Negative Affect System as a Function of Emotion Perception: Relations Between Affect and Sociability in Three Daily Diary Studies

Sara K Moeller  1 , Catherine G Nicpon  1 , Michael D Robinson  2
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Responsiveness to the Negative Affect System as a Function of Emotion Perception: Relations Between Affect and Sociability in Three Daily Diary Studies

Sara K Moeller et al. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2014 Aug.

Abstract

Perceiving emotions clearly and accurately is an important component of emotional intelligence (EI). This skill is thought to predict emotional and social outcomes, but evidence for this point appears somewhat underwhelming in cross-sectional designs. The present work adopted a more contextual approach to understanding the correlates of emotion perception. Because emotion perception involves awareness of affect as it occurs, people higher in this skill might reasonably be expected to be more attuned to variations in their affective states and be responsive to them for this reason. This novel hypothesis was pursued in three daily diary studies (total N = 247), which found systematic evidence for the idea that higher levels of daily negative affect predicted lesser sociability particularly, and somewhat exclusively, among people whose emotion perception skills were high rather than low. The results support a contextual understanding of individual differences in emotion perception and how they operate.

Keywords: clarity; daily; emotion perception; negative affect; sociability.

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Emotional Clarity as a Moderator of the Relationship between Daily Negative Affect and Daily Motivation to Socialize, Study 1
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Emotion Labeling Accuracy as a Moderator of the Relationship between Daily Negative Affect and Daily Motivation to Socialize, Study 2
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Affect Decoding Accuracy as a Moderator of the Relationship between Daily Negative Affect and Daily Social Behaviors, Study 3
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