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Can a brief meditation in the evening reshape our understanding of others at work during the next day, thereby enhancing the actor's performance and motivation? To address this question, we examine spillover effects of a brief meditation in the evening on next-day extra-role performance, in-role performance, and work engagement, considering perspective taking as explaining mechanism. Sixty-four participants from different sectors in Germany took part in our within-person field experiment over 10 days, receiving a 7-min mindfulness intervention on 5 days and an active control intervention on the other days. Our results supported a positive effect of the mindfulness intervention on next-day perspective taking, while the control intervention showed no effect. In turn, perspective taking predicted day-specific extra-role performance, in-role performance, and work engagement. The mindfulness intervention exerted significant indirect effects on all outcomes via perspective taking. These results help to clarify how an evening meditation enhances our understanding of others at work, improving performance and motivation. They further support employees in making an informed decision about whether they want to engage in evening meditation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Previous research on the relationship between workload and procrastination has produced conflicting theoretical explanations and inconsistent findings, and the role of individual differences in shaping this relationship remains largely unexplored. The present study addresses these limitations by investigating a curvilinear effect in the daily experience of workload and daily procrastination and including trait mindfulness as a person-related boundary condition. Using a daily diary design, we collected data from 159 full-time employees via two surveys per day over two consecutive working weeks and obtained 2,626 daily observations (i.e., 1,352 work-time surveys and 1,274 after-work surveys). Results of the multilevel analysis indicated a significant interaction between daily workload and trait mindfulness on daily procrastination. Specifically, employees with high trait mindfulness show a significant U-shaped curve, whereas those with lower trait mindfulness levels show a significant inverted U-shaped relationship. Furthermore, these effects indirectly influence both performance and daily well-being through their impact on daily procrastination. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Organizational scholars examining the effects of emotions on employees generally assume that negative emotions produce negative outcomes. However, a nascent body of research challenges this view, suggesting that negative emotions can help employees navigate work demands arising from disruptive external events. We draw on the COVID-19 pandemic-a salient, prolonged event that stimulated widespread negative emotions-as a theoretically meaningful context to explore when and why negative emotions may yield beneficial outcomes. Specifically, we provide an integrative conceptual review synthesizing research from applied and social psychology conducted during the pandemic that identifies two pathways through which negative emotions produce functional individual-level outcomes at work. The first pathway captures direct effects driven by the unique action tendencies associated with discrete negative emotions. The second pathway, informed by the personality systems interaction theory, highlights contingent effects shaped by self-regulatory factors and external support from leaders, teams, or organizational policies. Our findings challenge and extend discrete emotion and affective shift theories by detailing how and under what conditions negative emotions from disruptive events can have functional outcomes. We bring necessary nuance to prevailing emotion theories and offer practical implications for leaders and organizations seeking to manage negative emotions during the times of hardship. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).