Intense Positive Feelings Research Articles

Capturing passion expressed in text with artificial intelligence (AI): Affective passion waned, and identity centrality was sustained in social ventures

Entrepreneurial passion can influence individual well-being and improve firm-level outcomes, yet little is known about how to rapidly detect a change in passion from entrepreneurs’ communication. We draw on advancements in both the passion literature and artificial intelligence (AI) methods, to capture entrepreneurial passion expressed for founding a venture at different points in time. Specifically, we developed an AI algorithm to recognize identity-based passion (identity centrality) from training data, comprised of 8 h of transcribed interviews with entrepreneurs (achieving 84% accuracy), and detect affective passion (intense positive feelings) with sentiment analysis. Application of these two novel measurement approaches, to longitudinal interview text with early-stage entrepreneurs (N = 11, two time periods) in a six-month social venture accelerator, indicate that intense positive feelings decline while identity centrality varies. We conclude by outlining opportunities for future research.

Frontline Employee Passion: A Multistudy Conceptualization and Scale Development

Passion is a motivational force driving people toward success and satisfaction. Outside of entrepreneurship, though, research on how passion may be activated within a work role has been limited. As frontline employees (FLEs) are a vital link between organizations and their customers, measuring passion in the FLE context is particularly relevant. Anyone who has enjoyed memorable service knows, it is through passionate FLEs that service organizations may stand out from competitors. Through a series of seven studies conducted across multiple countries, this research develops and validates a measure of FLE passion. FLE passion is the intense positive feelings and identity reinforcement resulting from solving problems and/or serving customers. The developed and validated measurement instrument is comprised of both serving and solving dimensions and includes evidence that FLEs negotiate their identities and activate positive affect during service encounters. Theory and results indicate that organizations may control certain antecedents to passion, and that passion is related, yet distinct, from such things as employee engagement and organizational commitment. A potential research agenda is presented based upon applying the FLE passion construct across various service domains.

ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance

Recent studies have substantially enhanced our understanding of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in entrepreneurship—articulating the theoretical relevance of ADHD-type traits in entrepreneurship and confirming the positive linkages between ADHD symptoms/diagnosis and entrepreneurial intentions and behavior. However, how and why some people with ADHD symptoms run successful ventures, while other entrepreneurs fail to perform well, is still not well established. Our study builds on a Gestalt perspective that integrates person–environment fit and broaden-and-build theorizing, and proposes that strong positive emotions enable entrepreneurs with ADHD symptoms (at the subclinical level) to mitigate/reinforce the effect of ADHD’s trait-specific weaknesses/strengths to achieve entrepreneurial performance. Relying on fuzzy-set methodology, our findings indicate that for entrepreneurs with ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial performance occurs when they simultaneously experience passion for founding and developing. This passion configuration is unique to successful ADHD-type entrepreneurs. As such, this study offers novel theoretical and empirical insights as well as implications for practitioners.Plain English Summary Do people with ADHD perform well in entrepreneurship? Our research shows how ADHD symptoms relate to entrepreneurial performance finding that passion is important. Entrepreneurs who are highly and thereby ambidextrously passionate for growing their businesses and for founding activities while lacking intense positive feelings for coming up with new ideas can benefit from ADHD. These results are important for people with ADHD and their loved ones.

Anticipatory Entrepreneurial Passion and its Role in Shaping Affect/Effort of Nascent Entrepreneurs

Prior research has examined how entrepreneurial identities, once developed, license intense positive feelings associated with a state of passion that motivates, and is maintained by, an entrepreneur’s behaviors. Primarily overlooked is the process of entrepreneurial passion (EP) development that occurs during nascent stages when individuals who aspire to become entrepreneurs engage in entrepreneurial challenges to discover, stimulate or affirm the identity underlying their passions. To understand this development process, we conceptualize the construct of anticipatory entrepreneurial passion (AEP), theorize what feelings of anticipatory entrepreneurial passion (AEP) entail, and posit its dynamic role in entrepreneurship. We also distinguish conceptually between AEP and EP. In our conceptual framework, AEP is amplified or diminished over time as nascent entrepreneurs engage in challenging entrepreneurial activities, and experience the positive and/or negative affect aroused by such engagement. In this development process, the causal relationships between effort and affect involve a lower-order mechanism (e.g., actions and reactions) that collectively shape a higher-order mechanism (e.g., cognitive processing of meaning connected to identities) of AEP’s ebbs and flows.

Recognizing Opportunities across Campus: The Effects of Cognitive Training and Entrepreneurial Passion on the Business Opportunity Prototype

We analyze the effects of the program Cognitive Entrepreneurial Training in Opportunity Recognition on the accurate assessment of prototypical viability of business opportunities. The training integrates the principles of experiential learning and is designed to reach students across campus. We also investigate the moderating role of entrepreneurial passion on opportunity recognition learning. We use a quasi‐experimental design with pre‐test, post‐test in two European universities. The results demonstrate that the training has positive significant effects on the accurate identification of business opportunities' prototypical viability. Intense positive feelings about entrepreneurship moderate the learning process. We provide insights into entrepreneurship education practice across campus.

Entrepreneurial Passion and Behaviors: Opportunity Recognition As a Mediator

We examined the relationships among entrepreneurial passion, opportunity recognition, and entrepreneurial behaviors. Entrepreneurial passion includes the intense positive feelings originating from engagement in entrepreneurial activities and the centrality of these activities for entrepreneurs' self-identity. The empirical study was conducted using data from 195 entrepreneurs in new Chinese companies. Results showed that entrepreneurial passion had a significant impact on opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial behaviors. Further, opportunity recognition partly mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial behaviors. Entrepreneurs with entrepreneurial passion are, therefore, more likely than others are to identify opportunities and start new ventures. Theoretical and practical implications for entrepreneurship are discussed.

EL TEATRO COMO ESTRATEGIA MOVILIZADORA DE EMOCIONES Y ACTITUDES HACIA LAS CLASES DE FÍSICA

Se describe una estrategia de enseñanza, Gran Teatro de la Física, en la que se escenifican 8 demostraciones de experiencias no triviales, en el área de mecánica, electricidad, magnetismo y ondas. El propósito es generar emociones y actitudes que favorezcan el aprendizaje de la Física. La estrategia se aplicó a un grupo mayoritariamente constituido por estudiantes de nuevo ingreso a las licenciaturas de Física y Matemática en la Facultad de Ciencias. También se explora la motivación hacia las clases de Física en estudiantes de Biología y Química de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. Utilizamos una metodología descriptiva exploratoria y se recoge la información empleando cuestionarios de preguntas cerradas. El Gran teatro de la Física es una actividad que divierte y despierta curiosidad en el espectador. En general, para los estudiantes de las licenciaturas de Física y Matemática, el teatro promueve un aumento en las emociones positivas hacia las clases de Física. Hemos encontrado diferencias significativas en las emociones positivas antes y después del asistir al Teatro; las emociones negativas se reducen, aunque las diferencias no son significativas. Los resultados también arrojan que los hombres experimentan en mayor intensidad que las mujeres emociones positivas, aunque el efecto es mayor para las mujeres, este no es el caso para las emociones negativas.

When Passion Fades: Disentangling the Temporal Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Passion for Founding

AbstractThis study examines how and why entrepreneurial passion for founding changes over time. In particular, we propose that in the founding phase of a venture's lifecycle entrepreneurs’ founding identity centrality will remain stable over time. We also propose, however, that in our sample and time period studied, entrepreneurs’ intense positive feelings for founding will decrease over time. On the basis of theories of positive illusion, self‐regulation and role theory, we further hypothesize that venture idea change, change in role ambiguity and entrepreneurs’ feedback‐seeking behaviour are factors that help explain the rate of change in entrepreneurs’ intense positive feelings for founding. Using a three‐wave longitudinal research design, we find that among a sample of 112 entrepreneurs’ identity centrality does not change over time, whereas intense positive feelings for founding decrease over time. Moreover, the more entrepreneurs change their venture ideas, the weaker their decrease in intense positive feelings. Further, we show that entrepreneurs who frequently seek feedback suffer less from reduced positive feelings in response to higher increases in role ambiguity as compared to entrepreneurs who seek less feedback.

Team Entrepreneurial Passion: Its Emergence and Influence in New Venture Teams

We introduce the concept of team entrepreneurial passion, a team-level construct representing the level of shared intense positive feelings for a collective and central team identity for new venture teams. Additionally, we develop a dynamic theoretical model of (1) the processes by which team entrepreneurial passion can emerge from different combinations of new venture team members’ individual entrepreneurial passions, (2) the influence of team entrepreneurial passion on team and individual member outcomes, and (3) the relative importance of team entrepreneurial passion emergence and influence processes at different venture stages. Our model has theoretical and practical implications for scholarship concerning affective diversity, shared affect, collective identity, new venture teams, and entrepreneurial passion.

Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation

Along with other affective and emotional dimensions, passion is at the heart of entrepreneurship. Yet past research on entrepreneurial passion (EP) has been hindered by the lack of a sound measurement instrument. Through a series of empirical studies conducted with samples from relevant populations, we develop and validate an instrument to capture EP and its inherent dimensions. We show that the task-specific dimensions of EP (intense positive feelings toward the domains of inventing, founding and developing, and the centrality of these domains to entrepreneurs' self-identity) are conceptually and empirically distinct from one another, and from other emotions and cognitions known to play a role in entrepreneurship. Our theory and results indicate that proper measurement of entrepreneurial passion incorporates the interaction between entrepreneurs' feelings and identity centrality for each domain. We discuss the implications of our model, instrument and findings for future research on the affective components of innovation and entrepreneurship. We also develop specific guidelines for using our validated instrument in future research.

Motivational compatibility and the role of anticipated feelings in positively valenced persuasive message framing

AbstractPrevious research on message framing has focused on the effect of overall valence on persuasion, since most studies compare positively versus negatively valenced frames that are anchored by the same end‐state. Unlike previous studies, this paper investigates the role of end‐states, or outcome focus, in message framing by using two positively valenced, factually equivalent message frames that are anchored by opposing end‐states: the presence of gain (P/G) frame versus the absence of loss (A/L) frame. It is proposed that anticipated feelings and persuasion are greater when the end‐state of the message frame is motivationally compatible with a consumer's regulatory focus, either chronic or situational. The major hypothesis is that the P/G frame leads to the anticipation of more intense positive feelings and subsequently produces greater persuasion when promotion focus versus prevention focus is salient, whereas the opposite holds for the A/L frame. Furthermore, it is proposed that the effect of motivational compatibility on persuasion is mediated by the anticipation of positive feelings. These hypotheses are generally supported in two experiments. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex

Anterior insula and adjacent frontal operculum (hereafter referred to as IFO) are active during exposure to tastants/odorants (particularly disgusting ones), and during the viewing of disgusted facial expressions. Together with lesion data, the IFO has thus been proposed to be crucial in processing disgust-related stimuli. Here, we examined IFO involvement in the processing of other people's gustatory emotions more generally by exposing participants to food-related disgusted, pleased and neutral facial expressions during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We then exposed participants to pleasant, unpleasant and neutral tastants for the purpose of mapping their gustatory IFO. Finally, we associated participants' self reported empathy (measured using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, IRI) with their IFO activation during the witnessing of others' gustatory emotions. We show that participants' empathy scores were predictive of their gustatory IFO activation while witnessing both the pleased and disgusted facial expression of others. While the IFO has been implicated in the processing of negative emotions of others and empathy for negative experiences like pain, our finding extends this concept to empathy for intense positive feelings, and provides empirical support for the view that the IFO contributes to empathy by mapping the bodily feelings of others onto the internal bodily states of the observer, in agreement with the putative interoceptive function of the IFO.