“She was the epitome of a high-quality scientist,” said Angela Duckworth, a psychologist and colleague of Dr.
Barsade was not only one of the first to look at the role of emotions within organizations her studies were widely considered to be among the most rigorous and well designed in her field. In another study, conducted with Hakan Ozcelik of California State University, Sacramento, she surveyed 650 people about loneliness in the office and found that it had a significant impact on productivity - but also that even a single office friend could offset those negative impacts.ĭr. Those in the scowler’s group, she found, had a much harder time agreeing, while those sitting with the smiler came to a consensus faster and with much less conflict. She gave groups of people a task to complete together unknown to the participants, she also assigned one person in each group to express a particular emotion - to lean back and scowl or lean forward and smile. In one study, she showed that emotions and moods are contagious - that we unconsciously mimic the expressions and demeanors of those around us. They reveal not just how people feel, but also what they think and how they will behave.” “But one thing we now know after more than a quarter-century of research is that emotions are not noise - rather, they are data. “For a long time, emotions were viewed as noise, a nuisance, something to be ignored,” she told MIT Sloan Management Review in 2020.
Barsade, a professor of management at the Wharton School, the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, was a pioneer in what organizational psychologists call the affective revolution: the study of how emotions, not just behavior and decision making, shape a workplace culture, and in turn how they affect an organization’s performance.
Her husband, Jonathan Barsade, said the cause was a brain tumor.ĭr. Sigal Barsade, whose studies of organizational culture charted the internal dynamics of the American workplace as precisely as any episode of “The Office,” and who advised countless companies on how to embrace and nurture their employees’ emotional well-being, died on Feb.
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