Rashmi Dhakad and Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

For more than a decade scientist have focused on the emotions of software developers in order to understand emotion's impact on their productivity, creativity, and quality of work. In modern time, there is a sharp rise in open-source software collaborations and software development models that are globally distributed. A crucial aspect of these collaborations is the affect of emotional contagion. Emotional contagion is a phenomenon of transfer of one's affective state to another. In this research study, we follow through previously established research and build on it how emotional contagion happens in large opensource software development. We further establish how emotional contagion happens during different time and how it affects the overall development process.

Emotional Contagion, Software development process, open-source repositories, OSS, sentiment analysis, commits