Emotion in social life
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Emotion in social life
（Cognition and emotion, special issue）
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, c1991
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"This book is also a special double issue of the journal Congnition and Emotion which forms issues 5 and 6 of Volume 5 (1991). The page numbers used here are taken from the journal and so begin with p. 353"--P. [351]
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The last two or three decades have witnessed a steady growth in research on emotion, but relatively little of the psychological research has focused on the role of emotion in social life. Instead, there has been a concern with the impact of cognition on emotion; the impact of mood and emotion on cognition; the neurological substrates of emotion; the psychophysiological correlates of emotion, and the nonverbal (and especialy facial) expression of emotion. With the possible exception of the last topic, these are all essentially individualistic research issues, concentrating on the intra-individual processes that link biological activity, cognitive activity and expressive activity with subjective feeling states. However, many psychologists and probably the majority of other social scientists interested in emotion acknowledge that extra-individual processes are also important aspects of emotion, either contributing to the experience and expression of emotion, or providing the context in which emotions manifest themselves in altered perceptions and judgements, changes in expressive behaviour, and strengthened or weakened social relationships.
There are at least five ways in which emotion and social life are related: (i) affective states have an impact on social judgements and social perception; (ii) social contextual factors influence emotional expression and experience; (iii) emotions help to create, maintain and dissolve social relationships; (iv) emotions are communicated to others either intentionally of unintentionally through verbal or nonverbal channels; and (v) emotions serve important social functions. Each of these five links between emotion and social life is addressed by at least one of the chapters published here. By illustrating the significance of the reciprocal relationship between emotion and social life, this volume should encourage theorists and researchers to treat social and cultural variables as central to the study of emotion.
Table of Contents
- Emotion in social life, A.S.R. Manstead
- mood and constructive memory effects on social judgement, K. Fielder et al
- affective influences of stereotype judgements, J.P. Forgas and S.J. Moylan
- social reactions to the expression of emotion, S.M. Labott et al
- emotional stylists - strategies of expressive management among trainee hairdressers, B. Parkinson
- beyond the emotional event - six studies on the social sharing of emotion, B. Rime et al
- embarrassment - actual versus typical cases, classical versus prototypical representations, W.G. Parott and S.F. Smith.
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