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An organization’s informal advice network comprises of relations through which individuals share resources such as information, assistance, and guidance. While centrality and brokerage in this network have been found to exert substantial influence on individuals’ careers, it remains less clear who are more likely to occupy these positions. This paper focuses on individuals’ disposition to experience negative emotions (NA) and their emotional intelligence (EI) in understanding network positions. Using whole-network data of 417 master students in a Chinese business school, we found that students’ self-reported NA interacted with two ability measures of emotional intelligence in predicting their network centrality and brokerage. Specifically, students high on both NA and EI had the smallest and most constrained position in the advice network. Theoretical implications are discussed.