Larissa Z. Tiedens is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She earned her BA in Psychology at Carleton College and her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused on emotions in social contexts, cognitive consequences of emotions, and processes involved in stratification. Colin Wayne Leach is Associate Professor in the social psychology program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his academic training at Boston University, University of Michigan, and University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Immigrant Life in the US: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (with Donna R. Gabaccia, 2013).

• Introduction: a world of emotion; Part I. The Interpersonal Context: 1. Empathy: negotiating the border between self and other Mark Davis; 2. Envy and its transmutations Richard H. Smith; 3. The bond threat sequence: discourse evidence for the systematic interdependence of shame and social relationships David S. Fearon Jr.; 4. Emotion as adaptive interpersonal communication: the case of embarrassment Rowland S. Miller; 5. Does expressing emotion promote well-being? It depends on relationship context Margaret S. Clark and Eli J. Finkel; Part II. The Intra-Group Context: 6. Emotional contagion: religious and ethnic hatreds and global terrorism Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson; 7. The emotional convergence hypothesis: implications for individuals, relationships, and cultures Cameron Anderson and Dacher Keltner; 8. Emotional variation within work groups: causes and performance sequences Larissa Z. Tiedens, Robert I. Sutton and Christina T. Fong; 9. Inside the heart of emotion: on culture and relational concerns Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera, Agneta H. Fischer and Antony S. R. Manstead; 10. Objectification theory and emotions: a feminist psychological perspective on gendered affect Laura B. Citrin, Tomi-Ann Roberts and Barbara Fredrickson; Part III. The Inter-Group Context: 11. Intergroup emotions: emotions as an intergroup phenomenon Diane M. Mackie, Lisa A. Silver and Eliot R. Smith; 12. Intergroup contact and the central role of affect in intergroup prejudice Linda R. Tropp and Thomas F. Pettigrew; 13. Judgements of deserving and the emotional consequences of stigmatization Cheryl R. Kaiser and Brenda Major; 14. Group based emotions and intergroup behavior: the case of relative deprivation Heather J. Smith and Thomas Kessler; 15. Interpreting ingroup's negative actions toward another group: emotional reactions to appraised harm Nyla R. Branscombe and Anca M. Miron; 16. Intergroup schadenfreude: conditions and consequences Russel Spears and Colin Wayne Leach.