Contagious leaders and followers: Exploring multi-stage mood contagion in a leader activation and member propagation (LAMP) model

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 127-140

  Sy, Thomas ^a   Choi, Jin Nam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Emotion contagion; Extroversion; Group affect; Group processes; Leadership; Mood convergence; Neuroticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880670905     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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