`There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole field… it is such a blockbuster that one can only reel backwards and tell anyone studying the subject that they would be crazy not to get it
′ – Self & Society
This fascinating book overviews the psychology of the emotions in its broadest sense, tracing historical, social, cultural and biological themes and analyses. The contributors – some of the leading figures in the field – produce a new theoretical synthesis by drawing together these strands.
From the standpoint of the function of the emotions in everyday life, the authors focus on: the discursive role played by the emotions in expressing judgements about, attitudes to and contrition for actions done by the self and others, and how certain emotions – such as guilt, shame, embarrassment, chagrin and regret – seem to play a role in social control; the variation and diversity in emotion, which provides scope for exploring how patterns of emotion contrast in different societies, across gender lines, at different historical times, and between children and adults; and the way in which the body is shaped and its functions influenced by culturally maintained patterns of emotion displays.
Tabella dei contenuti
INTRODUCTION: SOME COMPLEXITIES IN THE STUDY OF EMOTIONS
Overview – W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]e
Vignette 1 – Daniel N Robinson
Aristotle on the Emotions
Vignette 2 – James R Averill
Intellectual Emotions
PART ONE: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EMOTIONS
Embarrassment and the Threat to Character – W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]e
Guilt and Remorse – Gabrielle Taylor
Shame and Guilt in Early New England – John Demos
Social Control of `Negative′ Emotions – Janet Landman
The Case of Regret
Vignette 3 – Christopher Ricks
Keats and Embarrassment
Vignette 4 – Inmaculada Iglesias
Verg[um]uenza Ajena
PART TWO: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL VARIETY IN EMOTIONS
Historical Perspectives on Grief – Peter N Stearns and Mark Knapp
Engendered Emotion – Catherine A Lutz
Gender, Power and the Rhetoric of Emotional Control in American Discourse
Emotion Talk across Cultures – Paul Heelas
Vignette 5 – Kenneth T Strongman and Luke Strongman
Maori Emotion
PART THREE: THE BIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF EMOTION
An Analysis of Psychophysiological Symbolism and Its Influence on Theories of Emotion – James R Averill
Bodily States and Context in Situated Lines of Action – Gerald P Ginsburg and Melanie E Harrington
`Facial Expression of Emotion′ and the Delusion of the Hermetic Self – Alan J Fridlund and Bradley Duchaine
Emotional Self-Control and Self-Perception – James D Laird and Nicholas H Apostoleris
Feelings Are the Solution, Not the Problem
Self-Attention – Shame – Shyness – Modesty – Charles Darwin
Blushing
Vignette 6 – Keith Oatley
Emotions: Communications to the Self and Others
Vignette 7 – Kenneth T Strongman
A Private Eye into Disgust
Circa l’autore
Professor W. Gerrod Parrott′s central interest is the nature of human emotion. His published work has focused on three areas: philosophical and historical approaches to the concept of emotion; emotion′s social foundations and functions, including such social emotions as embarrassment, shame, guilt, envy and jealousy; and the influence of emotion and emotional self-regulation on thought. He is the author of over 75 scholarly chapters and articles, and has published three books, Emotions and Culpability (with Norman Finkel, American Psychological Association, 2006), Emotions in Social Psychology (Psychology Press, 2001) and The Emotions: Social, Cultural, and Biological Dimensions (with Rom Harre′, Sage, 1996). He served from 1995-1999 as Editor of the Journal Cognition and Emotion, and is presently the President of the International Society for Research on Emotion
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