Emotion cycles – Page 1 Emotion cycles: On the social influence of emotion in organizations 1 Shlomo Hareli University of Haifa Haifa Israel shareli@gsb.haifa.ac.il Anat Rafaeli Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa Israel anatr@ie.technion.ac.il Forthcoming in Research in Organizational Behavior May 2007 1 The authors contributed equally to this paper. We would like to thank the editors for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this chapter and our respective research teams for the stimulating emotion cycles that they create for us.