The impact of disclosing emotions on ratings of interpersonal closeness, warmth, competence, and leadership ability

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.989826
• Publication Date: 2022-12-13T07:05:00Z
• Authors: Vera U. Ludwig; Blaire Berry; Jerry Y. Cai; Nai Ming Chen; Damien L. Crone; Michael L. Platt
• Keywords: Closeness; Self-disclosure

Increasingly, business leaders and other professionals are called upon to be vulnerable authentic in the workplace, which often includes disclosing emotions others. While sharing is known enhance closeness, several questions remain underexplored. Specifically, personal facts about oneself have been studied together, making it difficult determine effects of per se. Moreover, not enough factors that may influence emotions, including recipients' attitudes toward emotion-sharing, sharer's gender, whether one considers disclosure similar one's own experiences. We examined impact positive negative emotion on ratings warmth, competence, leadership ability.119 participants (95 female) United States were shown headshots individuals who introduced first person written format. For half pictures, an autobiographical fact individual's past was disclosed. half, associated disclosed.We found both increased feelings closeness above beyond alone. Sharing also ability. Male female sharers benefited equally from largely robust emotional expression. Having something common with disclosed or further all ratings.These findings indicate improve interpersonal interactions, potential management applications business.