A social psychologist studies how social information and interactions influence cognition, emotion and behavior. Controlled experiments can vary a social cue while measuring another person’s response. Negotiation studies, for example, separate the emotion communicated by a partner from the observer’s own feeling and subsequent concession. This makes social influence an empirically testable relation rather than an explanation inferred merely because two people behaved similarly. [ref]
The interpersonal effects of anger and happiness in negotiations by Gerben A. van Kleef and others. 2004, emotion information and negotiation responses
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