The Social Life of Emotions (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 10/4/2004
EAN 9780521828116, ISBN10: 0521828112

Hardcover, 378 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This book showcases research and theory about the way in which the social environment shapes, and is shaped by, emotion. The book has three sections, each of which addresses a different level of sociality: interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup. The first section refers to the links between specific individuals, the second to categories that define multiple individuals as an entity, and the final to the boundaries between groups. Emotions are found in each of these levels and the dynamics involved in these types of relationship are part of what it is to experience emotion. The chapters show how all three types of social relationships generate, and are generated by, emotions. In doing so, this book locates emotional experiences in the larger social context.

Introduction
a world of emotion
Part I. The Interpersonal Context
1. Empathy
negotiating the border between self and other Mark Davis
2. Envy and its transmutations Richard H. Smith
3. The bond threat sequence
discourse evidence for the systematic interdependence of shame and social relationships David S. Fearon Jr.
4. Emotion as adaptive interpersonal communication
the case of embarrassment Rowland S. Miller
5. Does expressing emotion promote well-being? It depends on relationship context Margaret S. Clark and Eli J. Finkel
Part II. The Intra-Group Context
6. Emotional contagion
religious and ethnic hatreds and global terrorism Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson
7. The emotional convergence hypothesis
implications for individuals, relationships, and cultures Cameron Anderson and Dacher Keltner
8. Emotional variation within work groups
causes and performance sequences Larissa Z. Tiedens, Robert I. Sutton and Christina T. Fong
9. Inside the heart of emotion
on culture and relational concerns Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera, Agneta H. Fischer and Antony S. R. Manstead
10. Objectification theory and emotions
a feminist psychological perspective on gendered affect Laura B. Citrin, Tomi-Ann Roberts and Barbara Fredrickson
Part III. The Inter-Group Context
11. Intergroup emotions
emotions as an intergroup phenomenon Diane M. Mackie, Lisa A. Silver and Eliot R. Smith
12. Intergroup contact and the central role of affect in intergroup prejudice Linda R. Tropp and Thomas F. Pettigrew
13. Judgements of deserving and the emotional consequences of stigmatization Cheryl R. Kaiser and Brenda Major
14. Group based emotions and intergroup behavior
the case of relative deprivation Heather J. Smith and Thomas Kessler
15. Interpreting ingroup's negative actions toward another group
emotional reactions to appraised harm Nyla R. Branscombe and Anca M. Miron
16. Intergroup schadenfreude
conditions and consequences Russel Spears and Colin Wayne Leach.