WOW’s Deputy Director, Professor Peter Jordan, researches how emotions impact on people’s behaviour at work. Why? He just finds it interesting to understand why people behave and react as they do because in his opinion, emotions will be behind most of it! Paying him to do this is a bonus, Peter adds, because it certainly raises his level of positive emotion! We spent five minutes with Peter to learn a little more….
Are there ongoing or emerging trends in your field/s of research?
A lot of work has been done on how moods, particularly positive and negative moods impact on how individuals behave and perform at work. More recently there has been a focus on examining specific emotions such as anger and fear and pride and enthusiasm and how they impact on performance. There has also been acknowledgement that emotions are contagious and therefore there is a growing interest in looking at
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