Discusses cognitive and affective aspects of social sharing and attachment processes. Social sharing situations, responses to mild and severe emotional sharing, the role of shared emotions in strengthening social bonds, propagation of emotional information, interpersonal benefits of sharing, and cognitive dimensions of emotional sharing are considered. Verbal and nonverbal responses to emotional sharing situations are also described.
Rimé, B., & Zech, E. (2001). The social sharing of emotion: Interpersonal and collective dimensions. Boletin de Psicologia, 70, 97-108. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/271354 (Original work published 2001)