This is a qualitative theory-building study that examines the relationship between organizational display rules and social norms (e.g. occupational, status and personal norms) and their influence on anger expressions in the workplace. The emotional labor literature has focused on the impact of...

The incidence of obesity in the United States has tripled over the past fifty years. A substantial literature has explored the health consequences of this epidemic, but little is known about the social consequences of obesity. Across five studies, we demonstrate that obesity signals low...

This paper demonstrates that organizational anger contexts and the form of anger expression does impact positive and negative outcomes of anger. Anger context refers to an organization's normative rules governing anger expression, specifically defined as the extent to which organizational...