Good Effects of Bad Feelings: Negative Affectivity and Group Decision‐making
研究发现，当信息在群体成员间分散时，成员较高的消极情感反而能促进信息处理和提升决策质量。
Extending the growing interest in the relationship between affect and workgroup processes, we propose that groups make better use of their distributed information and therefore make better decisions when group members are higher in negative affectivity. In an experiment, we studied the influence of negative affectivity when information was distributed among group members and when group members had fully shared information. Results indicated that negative affectivity indeed stimulates group information processing and decision quality when information is distributed among group members.