An Investigation into the Emotional Relationships Involved in Performance Dyads

性能差异存在于一系列领域中；包括医疗保健、紧急服务、体育和军事。在这些绩效领域中，积极的关系是成功的组成部分（Price & Weiss, 2010），无效的互动会产生严重的后果（Milliken, Morrison & Hewlin, 2003）。情感因素在这些关系的质量中起着重要作用，然而，很少有研究致力于调查情感对复杂表现二元关系的影响。良好的情绪动态在表演群体中的重要性已经被广泛提出（Lazarus, 2000），情绪传染，即情绪和情感在个体之间的转移（Hatfield, Cacioppo & Rapson, 1994），是目前用来解释这些表演群体中情绪转移的最重要的理论（Barsade, 2002）。尽管如此，情绪传染及其相关因素仍有待于在绩效双元组中进行识别和检查。在整个研究过程中，将采用定量调查、访谈和焦点小组以及感觉系统实验等方法来研究可能影响绩效内双向情绪转移强度和方向的因素。测量的因素将包括领导特质、特质对情绪感染的易感性、内部权力关系和双重效能。此外，由于情绪和感觉系统之间存在实质性的交叉，本研究还将研究嗅觉系统对情绪感染过程的影响，并努力确定气味敏感性是否与个体对情绪感染的敏感性有关。所有的调查将有应用性能的影响，并有助于进一步我们对社会群体中的情感现象的理解。

Performance dyads exist across a range of domains; including healthcare, emergency services, sport and the military. Within these performance domains, positive relationships are integral for success (Price & Weiss, 2010) and ineffective interactions can have serious consequences (Milliken, Morrison & Hewlin, 2003). Emotional considerations play a major role in the quality of these relationships, however, very little research has been dedicated to investigating the effect of emotions upon complex performance dyadic relationships. The importance of good emotional dynamics within performing groups has been widely presented (Lazarus, 2000), and emotional contagion, the transfer of mood and affect between individuals (Hatfield, Cacioppo & Rapson, 1994), is currently the most prominent theory used to explain the emotional transfer within these performing groups (Barsade, 2002). Despite this, emotional contagion and its associated factors are yet to be identified and examined within performance dyads. Throughout this research, methodologies including quantitative surveys, interviews and focus groups, and sensory system experimentation will be employed to examine factors that may affect the strength and direction of intra-performance dyad emotional transfer. The measured factors will include leadership characteristics, trait susceptibility to emotional contagion, within-dyad power relationships and dyad efficacy. Furthermore, due to the substantial crossover between emotions and sensory systems, the proposed work will also examine the influence that olfactory systems have upon the emotional contagion process, and endeavour to establish whether odour sensitivity is related to an individual's sensitivity to emotional contagion. All investigations will have applied performance implications and help to further our understanding of emotional phenomena within social groups.