The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions

337 Pages·1996·19.575 MB·English

by  Rom Harré (ed.), W. Gerrod Parrott (ed.)

THE EMOTIONS

THE EMOTIONS
Social, Cultural and
Biological Dimensions
Edited by
Rom Harré and
W. Gerrod Parrott
SAGE Publications
London · Thousand Oaks · New Delhi
Editorial selection and matter, Introduction, Chapters 1
and 2 CO W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harré 1996
Vignette 1 © Daniel N. Robinson 1996
Vignette 4 © Inmaculada Iglesias 1996
Chapter 6 © Peter N. Stearns and Mark Knapp 1996
Vignette 5 © K.T. Strongman and L. Strongman 1996
Chapter 10 © G.P. Ginsburg and Melanie E. Harrington 1996
Chapter 12 © James D. Laird and Nicholas H. Apostoleris
1996
Vignette 6 © Keith Oatley 1996
Vignette 7 © K.T. Strongman 1996
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Contents
Affiliations of the Contributors vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements χ
Introduction: Some Complexities in the Study of Emotions 1
1 Overview 1
W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harré
VIGNETTE l Aristotle on the Emotions 21
Daniel N. Robinson
VIGNETTE 2 Intellectual Emotions 24
James R. Aver ill
Part I: The Social Dimension of Emotions 39
2 Embarrassment and the Threat to Character 39
W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harré
3 Guilt and Remorse 57
Gabrielle Taylor
4 Shame and Guilt in Early New England 74
John Demos
5 Social Control of 'Negative' Emotions: The Case of Regret 89
Janet Landman
VIGNETTE 3 Keats and Embarrassment 117
Christopher Ricks
VIGNETTE 4 Verguenza ajena 122
Inmaculada Iglesias
Part II: Historical and Cultural Variety in Emotions 132
6 Historical Perspectives on Grief 132
Peter N. Stearns and Mark Knapp
vi Contents
7 Engendered Emotion: Gender, Power, and the Rhetoric of
Emotional Control in American Discourse
Catherine A. Lutz
8 Emotion Talk across Cultures
Paul Heelas
VIGNETTE 5 Maori Emotion
K.T. Strongman and L. Strongman
Part III: The Biological Dimensions of Emotion
9 An Analysis of Psychophysiological Symbolism and its
Influence on Theories of Emotion
James R. Averill
10 Bodily States and Context in Situated Lines of Action
G. P. Ginsburg and Melanie E. Harrington
11 'Facial Expressions of Emotion' and the Delusion of the
Hermetic Self
Alan J. Fridlund and Bradley Duchaine
12 Emotional Self-control and Self-perception: Feelings are the
Solution, not the Problem
James D. Laird and Nicholas H Apostoleris
13 Self-attention - Shame - Shyness - Modesty: Blushing
Charles Darwin
VIGNETTE 6 Emotions: Communications to the Self and
Others
Keith Oatley
VIGNETTE 7 A Private Eye into Disgust
K.T. Strongman
Name Index
Subject Index
Affiliations of the Contributors
Nicholas H. Apostoleris, Frances Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark
University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA.
James R. Averill, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
John Demos, Department of History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208324,
New Haven, CT 06520-8324, USA.
Bradley Duchaine, Department of Psychology, University of California at
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Alan J. Fridlund, Department of Psychology, University of California at
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
G.P. Ginsburg, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada at Reno,
Reno, NV 89557, USA.
Rom Harré, Linacre College, Oxford, OX1 3 J A, United Kingdom and
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
20057, USA.
Melanie E. Harrington, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada
at Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA.
Paul Heelas, Department of Anthropology, Lancaster University, Lan-
caster, LAI 4YG, UK.
Inmaculada Iglesias, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Mark Knapp, Department of History, Carnegie-Melon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Janet Landman, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 580
Union Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1346, USA.
James D. Laird, Frances Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University,
Worcester, MA 01610, USA.
Catherine A. Lutz, Department of Anthropology, Alumni Building, CB
3115, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115, USA.
viii Contributors
Keith Oatley, Centre for Applied Cognitive Science, The Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MSS 1V6.
W. Gerrod Parrott, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Christopher Ricks, College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, 236 Bay
State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Daniel N. Robinson, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Peter N. Stearns, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Carnegie-Melon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Gabrielle Taylor, St Anne's College, Oxford, OX2 6HS, UK.
Kenneth T. Strongman, Department of Psychology, Canterbury University,
Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Luke Strongman, Department of English, Canterbury University, Private
Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Preface
The last decade has seen an amazing transformation and broadening in the
ways the emotions are understood and in the methods by which they are
studied. Many supposedly secure research findings have been upset and
taken-for-granted assumptions brought into question. This volume brings
together the most recent developments in the psychology of the emotions in
what we hope will prove to be a 'handy package'. While taking account of
the complexity of the emerging field we hope it will prove to be accessible
at all levels. Used as a class text we believe that this book will enable
students to acquaint themselves with the most recent developments in the
psychology of the emotions.
W. Gerrod Parrott
Rom Harré