‘Too humble and sad’: The effect of humility and emotional display when a politician talks about a moral issue

Social Science Information

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 660-680

  D’Errico, Francesca ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

emotions; humility; political humility; prosocial orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85077216334     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018419893564     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Anderson CA, Bushman BJ, (2002) Human aggression. Annual review of psychology 53.
2. Augustinus (413) De Civitate Dei. Book 22.
3. Bass BM, Avolio BJ, (1990) Developing transformational leadership: 1992 and beyond. Journal of European industrial training 14(5).
4. Batson CD, O’Quin K, Fultz J, Varnderpla M, Isen AM, (1983) Influence of self-reported distress and empathy on egoistic versus altruistic motivation to help. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 45(3): 706–718.
5. Biber D, Finegan E, (1989) Styles of stance in English: Lexical and grammatical marking of evidentiality and affect. Text – Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse 9(1): 93–124.
6. Brader T, (2005) Striking a responsive chord: How political ads motivate and persuade voters by appealing to emotions. American Journal of Political Science 49(2): 388–405
7. Bucy EP, Bradley SD, (2004) Presidential expressions and viewer emotion: Counterempathic responses to televised leader displays. Social Science Information 43(1): 59–94.
8. Damen F, Van Knippenberg D, Van Knippenberg B, (2008) Leader affective displays and attributions of charisma: The role of arousal. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 38(10): 2594–2614.
9. Davis DE, Worthington EL, Jr. Hook JN, Hill PC, (2013) Research on religion/spirituality and forgiveness: A meta-analytic review. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 5(4): 233.
10. D’Errico F, (forthcoming) Humility based persuasion: individual differences in elicited emotions and politician evaluation.
11. D’Errico F, Leone G, Poggi I, (2012) Pedagogical stance. Teacher position and her social signal. In: 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3–5 September.
12. D’Errico F, Paciello M, (2018) Online moral disengagement and hostile emotions in discussions on immigration. Internet Research 28(5): 1313–1335.
13. D’Errico F, Poggi I, (2019) Tracking a leader’s humility and its emotions from body, face and voice. Web Intelligence 17(1): 63–74.
14. D’Errico F, Poggi I, (submitted) ‘Emotion that goes around comes around’. Political charisma and emotions conveyed through social media.
15. D’Errico F, Poggi I, Vincze L, (2012) Discrediting signals. A model of social evaluation to study discrediting moves in political debates. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 6(3/4): 163–178.
16. Ekman P, Freisen WV, Hager JC, (2002) Facial Action Coding System (Vol. 160). Salt Lake City: Research Nexus eBook.
17. Exline JJ, Hill PC, (2012) Humility: A consistent and robust predictor of generosity. The Journal of Positive Psychology 7(3): 208–218.
18. Gaddis B, Connelly S, Mumford MD, (2004) Failure feedback as an affective event: Influences of leader affect on subordinate attitudes and performance. The Leadership Quarterly 15(5): 663–686.
19. Goodwin MH, Cekaite A, Goodwin C, (2012) In: Peräkylä A, Sorjonen M-L, (eds) Emotion as Stance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 16–41.
20. Gooty J, Connelly S, Griffith J, Gupta A, (2010) Leadership, affect and emotions: A state of the science review. The Leadership Quarterly 21(6): 979–1004
21. Graham J, Nosek BA, Haidt J, Iyer R, Koleva S, Ditto PH, (2011) Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 101(2): 366.
22. Hoffman ML, (2008) Empathy and prosocial behavior. Handbook of emotions 3: 440–455.
23. Izard CE, (1975) Patterns of emotions and emotion communication in ‘hostility’ and aggression. In: Pliner P, (ed.) Nonverbal Communication of Aggression. Boston: Springer, 77–101.
24. Keltner D, Cordaro DT, (2015) Understanding multimodal emotional expressions: Recent advances in basic emotion theory. Emotion Researcher, 1–17.
25. Krause N, Pargament KI, Hill PC, Ironson G, (2016) Humility, stressful life events, and psychological well-being: Findings from the landmark spirituality and health survey. The Journal of Positive Psychology 11(5): 499–510.
26. Kruse E, Chancellor J, Ruberton PM, Lyubomirsky S, (2014) An upward spiral between gratitude and humility. Social Psychological And Personality Science 5(7): 805–814.
27. LaBouff JP, Rowatt WC, Johnson MK, Tsang JA, Willerton GM, (2012) Humble persons are more helpful than less humble persons: Evidence from three studies. The Journal of Positive Psychology 7(1): 16–29.
28. Lewis KM, (2000) When leaders display emotion: How followers respond to negative emotional expression of male and female leaders. Journal of Organizational Behavior 21(2): 221–234.
29. Li J, Liang QZ, Zhang ZZ, (2016) The effect of humble leader behavior, leader expertise, and organizational identification on employee turnover intention. Journal of Applied Business Research 32(4): 1145–1156.
30. Liu CY, (2016) Does humble leadership behavior promote employees’ voice behavior? – A dual mediating model. Open Journal of Business and Management 4: 731–740.
31. Miceli M, Castelfranchi C, (2002) The mind and the future: The (negative) power of expectations. Theory & Psychology 12(3): 335–366.
32. Mininni G, (2004) Psicologia e Media. Bari: Laterza Editions.
33. Morris JA, Brotheridge CM, Urbanski JC, (2005) Bringing humility to leadership: Antecedents and consequences of leader humility. Human Relations 58(10): 1323–1350.
34. Muraven M, Baumeister RF, (2000) Self-regulation and depletion of limited resources: Does self-control resemble a muscle? Psychological Bulletin 126(2): 247–259.
35. Oc B, Bashshur MR, Daniels MA, Greguras GJ, Diefendorff JM, (2015) Leader humility in Singapore. The Leadership Quarterly 26(1): 68–80.
36. Poggi I, D’Errico F, (2009) The mental ingredients of bitterness. Journal of Multimodal User Interface 3(1): 79–86.
37. Poggi I, D’Errico F, (2010a) Dominance signals in debates. International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 163–174.
38. Poggi I, D’Errico F, (2010b) Cognitive modelling of human social signals. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Social Signal Processing (SSPW 2010). Florence, Italy, 29 October, pp. 21–26.
39. Poggi I, D’Errico F, Vincze L, (2011) Discrediting moves in political debate. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on User Models for Motivational Systems (UMMS 2011), The affective and the rational routes to persuasion. Girona, Spain, 11 July, pp. 84–99.
40. Rego A, Owens B, Leal S, Melo AI E, Cunha MP, Gonçalves L, Ribeiro P, (2017) How leader humility helps teams to be humbler, psychologically stronger, and more effective: A moderated mediation model. The Leadership Quarterly 28(5): 639–658.
41. Salmela M, Von Scheve C, (2017) Emotional roots of right-wing political populism. Social Science Information 56(4): 567–595.
42. Sezer O, Gino F, Norton MI, (2018) Humblebragging: A distinct – and ineffective – self-presentation strategy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114(1): 52–74.
43. Tangney JP, (2000) Humility: Theoretical perspectives, empirical findings and directions for future research. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 19: 70–82.
44. Tangney JP, (2009) Humility. In: Lopez S, Snyder C, (eds) Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 483–490.
45. Tong EM, Tan KW, Chor AA, Koh EP, Lee JS, Tan RW, (2016) Humility facilitates higher self-control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 62: 30–39.
46. Van Kleef GA, Homan AC, Beersma B, Van Knippenberg D, (2010) On angry leaders and agreeable followers: How leaders’ emotions and followers’ personalities shape motivation and team performance. Psychological Science 21(12): 1827–1834.
47. Van Kleef GA, Homan AC, Beersma B, Van Knippenberg D, Van Knippenberg B, Damen F, (2009) Searing sentiment or cold calculation? The effects of leader emotional displays on team performance depend on follower epistemic motivation. Academy of Management Journal 52: 562–580.
48. Vincze L, Poggi I, D’Errico F, (2012) Vagueness and dreams: Analysis of body signals in vague dream telling. In: International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 77–89.
49. Weidman AC, Cheng JT, Tracy JL, (2018) The psychological structure of humility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114(1): 153–178.
50. Wright JC, Nadelhoffer T, Perini T, Langville A, Echols M, Venezia K, (2017) The psychological significance of humility. The Journal of Positive Psychology 12(1): 3–12.