Research 6

Source:
http://dare.uva.nl/document/2/90905

My topic:
How do the students' emotion affect the lesson and how can we use them properly in class? 

What I hope to learn from this source:
Role of emotion in social decision making

Notes:
Emotions play an important role in shaping the social decisions people make in 
everyday life. Motivated by three key concerns with past research—its focus on intrapersonal rather than interpersonal effects, its focus on positive and negative mood rather than discrete emotions, and its neglect of the social context within which social decisions are made—we advanced the Emotions as Social Information (EASI) model. The model is grounded in two fundamental assumptions, namely (a) that individuals use interdependent others' emotional expressions to make sense of ambiguous and uncertain social situations, and (b) that the cooperative or competitive nature of the social situation fundamentally influences the interpersonal effects of emotions. Building on these assumptions and previous theorizing about the social functions of emotions, we proposed that emotions can exert interpersonal influence via affective reactions 
(including emotional contagion, affect infusion, and mood management) and/or inferential processes (most notably the strategic inferences individuals draw from their counterpart's emotional expressions). We developed the argument that affective reactions take precedence when the social situation is (perceived as) cooperative and/or decision makers have low epistemic motivation (i.e., low motivation to develop and maintain an accurate understanding of the situation), whereas inferential processes take precedence when the situation is (perceived as) competitive and/or decision makers have high epistemic motivation. Guided by this model, we reviewed evidence showing that the interpersonal effects of emotions and the processes that drive them differ as a function of the nature of the situation, with effects in cooperative settings being best explained in terms of emotional contagion, affect infusion, and mood management, and effects in competitive contexts being better understood in terms of the strategic inferences individuals draw from their counterpart's Emotions as Social Information 54 emotional expressions. We have seen that these interpersonal effects cannot be explained in 
terms of the positive versus negative valence of emotions, and should instead be understood in terms of the unique social information conveyed by each discrete emotion. We hope that the EASI model will stimulate new research that acknowledges the dynamic and social nature of emotional phenomena. Such work is needed to develop a more complete understanding of the pervasive influence of emotion on our social lives. 

Final Thoughts:
In research 5, I found that emotions are important in decision making, but there wasn't any reliable evidences. So I will prove that with this thesis.