Integrating and extending existing theory and research on social influence-seeking, affect, and ethics, we develop a theoretical model that describes a number of factors, including considerations of morality, that influence: (1) the decision and behaviors by one party in an influence situation...

The role of emotional messages in interpersonal influence is powerful but under-explored in the social influence literatures. In this extended abstract, we propose a connectionist approach and argue that the exchange of emotional messages in social influence encompasses dual processes of...

We collected a sample of 167 employees from the travel agency industry in Taiwan a few weeks after a tragic incident that involved the loss of twenty-two individuals from two travel groups due to large-scale landslides. We predicted, and found, that the more the respondents empathized with the...