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Prior research on emotion and team conflict has primarily focused on the experience of negative emotions, especially as they pertain to relationship conflict. We extend prior conceptualizations by considering both the valence of emotion (positive versus negative) and the activation level (passive versus active) across three types of conflict. We report survey results demonstrating that active positive emotions (eg, attentive, interested, excited) are most prevalent in response to all types of conflict. We also find that while the pattern across the four types of emotions is similar for task and process conflict, it differs for relationship conflict.