Researchers have shown that the emotions that athletes experience during sporting competition can be transferred between team members to create collective team emotional states. Nevertheless, collective emotions have not yet been investigated for sporting dyads. In this study, the emotional experiences of 68 doubles table tennis players (34 dyads) were examined at three time points: precompetition, in-competition, and postcompetition. It was found that the intensity of each emotional state differed as a function of match situation (positive/negative). Moreover, in-competition anxiety, dejection, and anger were shown to predict poorer subjective performance, and anxiety was shown to negatively impact future objective athlete performance. Most pertinently, within-dyad emotional aggregation was identified for athlete in-competition happiness and dejection and for postcompetition happiness, dejection, and anger. These findings represent the first quantitative evidence of emotional convergence in sport dyads and provide support for the social functional theory of emotion in sport.

研究人员表明，运动员在体育比赛中所经历的情绪可以在团队成员之间转移，从而创造集体的团队情绪状态。然而，尚未对运动二人组的集体情绪进行调查。在这项研究中，68 名双打乒乓球运动员（34 对）的情绪体验在三个时间点进行了检查：赛前、赛中和赛后。结果发现，每种情绪状态的强度随着比赛情况（正面/负面）的不同而不同。此外，比赛中的焦虑、沮丧和愤怒被证明可以预测较差的主观表现，而焦虑被证明会对未来的客观运动员表现产生负面影响。最相关的是，确定了运动员在比赛中的快乐和沮丧以及赛后的快乐、沮丧和愤怒的情绪聚集。这些发现代表了运动中情绪融合的第一个定量证据，并为运动中情绪的社会功能理论提供了支持。