"This workshop explores what kinds of emotional skills and emotional challenges are especially relevant for interdisciplinary research, and how we could jointly develop more positive emotional climates to support generous creative and collaborative work and well-being as interdisciplinarians. Previous research shows that positive emotions play a crucial role for the successful development of interdisciplinary projects for individual scholars and research teams alike. At the same time, emotional and interactive tensions can affect the intellectual contents of research. Integrating ideas across fields can lead to intellectual conflicts and informational overload, provoking feelings of inadequacy, inability, and dismissal of one’s own expertise. The improvement of emotional climates entails that we recognize the emotions experienced in our academic environments such as fear, sadness, anger, enthusiasm, and pride, as well as feelings such as shame, envy and resentment, which are experienced but often not expressed due to feeling rules of academia. Previous research has shown that the creative potential of research communities can be enhanced through the development of emotional intelligence, while also critically considering the feeling rules that regulate the expression of emotions in our academic communities. "