Past research has shown that situations involving conflict arouse greater anxiety and discomfort in women than men, and that women are more likely to avoid conflict. In this research we examine how conflict avoidance affects emotional exhaustion. Specifically we asked, does avoiding conflict...

Prior research on emotion and team conflict has primarily focused on the experience of negative emotions, especially as they pertain to relationship conflict. We extend prior conceptualizations by considering both the valence of emotion (positive versus negative) and the activation level...

Fifteen years ago, Jehn’s (1995; 1997) investigations of conflict types (task, relationship and process conflict) attempted to resolve the paradox of intra-group conflict by examining the distinct effects of each conflict type. Although this work has greatly enhanced the field’s understanding of...