The project addresses the relationship between two fundamental dimensions of social cognition (i.e., agency and communion) and emotional contagion (a process by which an emotional experience in a receiver is induced by mood or emotions displayed by a sender). Drawing on the Dual Perspective Model of Agency and Communion (Abele & Wojciszke, 2014), we expect that the effects of agentic and communal characteristics of the sender on emotional contagion are not additive but interactive (i.e., the sender’s agentic traits may either foster or hinder concordant affective reactions to the sender’s emotional displays depending on his/her communal traits). The primary goal of the project is thus to systematically test these interactive effects.