Abstract: Team emotion refers to the combination of the team members’ emotions. We reviewed the related international and domestic well-known journal papers from 2000 up to now. We introduced the components of the team emotions and the several research methods of team emotions, summarized the forming process of team emotions, and reviewed how team emotions influences the team outcome in terms of team emotions norm, different emotion situation and specific emotion presences. Lastly, it summarized the main research approaches and methods of team emotions, and pointed out that exploiting the team emotion would deepen the research process of team study

Key words: individual emotions, team emotions, emotionally competent group norms