Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
- Part II Workplace Affect and Individual Worker Outcomes
- Part III Workplace Affect and Interpersonal and Team-Level Processes
- Part IV Workplace Affect and Organizational, Social, and Cultural Processes
- Part V Discrete Emotions at Work
- 29 The Emotion of Interest at Work
- 30 The Antecedents and Consequences of Fear at Work
- 31 From Self-Consciousness to Success
- 32 Happiness in Its Many Forms
- 33 Envy and Jealousy
- 34 Other-Focused Emotion Triads
- 35 Schadenfreude at Work
- Part VI New Perspectives on Workplace Affect
- Index
- References
29 - The Emotion of Interest at Work
from Part V - Discrete Emotions at Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 June 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
- Part II Workplace Affect and Individual Worker Outcomes
- Part III Workplace Affect and Interpersonal and Team-Level Processes
- Part IV Workplace Affect and Organizational, Social, and Cultural Processes
- Part V Discrete Emotions at Work
- 29 The Emotion of Interest at Work
- 30 The Antecedents and Consequences of Fear at Work
- 31 From Self-Consciousness to Success
- 32 Happiness in Its Many Forms
- 33 Envy and Jealousy
- 34 Other-Focused Emotion Triads
- 35 Schadenfreude at Work
- Part VI New Perspectives on Workplace Affect
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter is about the emotion of interest as it may be experienced in the workplace. Interest has been described as “positive, focused, directed arousal, which prompts approach and engagement with the task” (Ainley, 2007, p. 153). Izard (1991, p. 100) describes the subjective experience of interest as “the feeling of being engaged, caught up, fascinated, or curious … wanting to investigate, become involved, or expand the self by incorporating new information and having new experiences with the person or object that has stimulated the interest. In intense interest or excitement, the person feels animated and enlivened.”
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect , pp. 389 - 401Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020