'Affective Presence': How You Make Other People Feel - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Some people can walk into a room and instantly put everyone at ease. Others seem to make teeth clench and eyes roll no matter what they do
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A small body of psychology research supports the idea that the way a person tends to make others feel is a consistent and measurable part of his personality. Researchers call it “affective presence.”
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10 years ago in a study by Noah Eisenkraft and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. They put business-school students into groups, had them enroll in all the same classes for a semester, and do every group project together
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