Do Emotions Influence Workplace Outcomes?

Sigal tested whether the contagion led to bad work place outcomes. She had her workers do a bunch of financial decision tasks, including making hard decisions about monitary aplecations. Did workers make worse decisions when in the presence of a single bad, mooted confederate? What we found is that in the positive emotional contagion conditions, the groups were less conflictal and more co operative. This was very powerful evidence for the idea that, yes, emotions are contagious, and b, that they actually influence work outcomes.