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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title It pays to have an eye for emotions: Emotion recognition ability indirectly predicts annual income
Organization Unit
  • Contribution from another University/Organization than University of Zurich
Authors
  • Tassilo Momm
  • Gerhard Blickle
  • Yongmei Liu
  • Andreas Wihler
  • Mareike Kholin
  • Jochen Menges
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Organizational Behavior
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0894-3796
Volume 36
Number 1
Page Range 147 - 163
Date 2015
Abstract Text This study integrates the emotion and social influence literatures to examine how emotion recognition ability (ERA) relates to annual income. In a sample of 142 employee-peer-supervisor triads from a broad range of jobs and organizations, we find that people’s level of ERA indirectly relates to how much they earn per year. The relationship between ERA and annual income is mediated sequentially through political skill and inter-personal facilitation. The results imply that emotional abilities allow people not only to process affect-ladeninformation effectively but also to use this information to successfully navigate the social world of organizations in the pursuit of prosperity.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1002/job.1975
Other Identification Number merlin-id:17519
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