This paper distinguishes collective emotions from other phenomena pertaining to the social and interactive nature of emotion and proposes a taxonomy of different types of collective emotion. First, it emphasizes the distinction between collective emotions as affective experiences and underpinning mechanisms. Second, it elaborates on other types of affective experience, namely the social sharing of emotion, group-based emotions, and joint emotions. Then, it proposes a working definition of collective emotion via a minimal threshold and four structural features. Finally, it develops a taxonomy of five types of collective emotion: emotional sharing, emotional contagion, emotional matching, emotional segregation, and emotional fusion.

本文将集体情绪与其他与情绪的社会性和互动性有关的现象区分开来，并提出了不同类型的集体情绪的分类法。首先，它强调集体情绪作为情感体验和支撑机制之间的区别。其次，阐述了其他类型的情感体验，即情感的社会分享、基于群体的情感和联合情感。然后，它通过最小阈值和四个结构特征提出了集体情感的工作定义。最后，它对五种集体情感进行了分类：情感分享、情感传染、情感匹配、情感隔离和情感融合。