The emotions : social, cultural and biological dimensions

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The emotions : social, cultural and biological dimensions

edited by Rom Harré and W. Gerrod Parrott

Sage, 1996

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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`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.

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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

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