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The study of emotion tends to breach traditional academic boundaries. It requires multi-modal perspectives and the suspension of dualistic conventions to appreciate its complexity. This book analyses historical, philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, post-structural, and technologic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ellis, Darren, Tucker, Ian (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Emotions.
Social psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Social psychology, emotion and interdisciplinarity
  • Chapter Summaries
  • 1. Two Ancient Theories of Emotion: Plato and Aristotle
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • Plato
  • A dualistic split
  • A tripartite division
  • An emerging blurred division
  • Plato's psychosocial studies of emotion
  • Higher emotion
  • Aristotle
  • The powers of De Anima
  • Passive passions
  • Emotion and virtue
  • Aristotle's psychosocial studies of emotion
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 2. Hellenistic and Medieval Theologies of Emotion
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • The Hellenistic period
  • Early Stoa
  • Middle Stoa
  • Late Stoa
  • Epicureanism
  • Augustine
  • Passion, affection and the will
  • The golden age of Islam
  • Poetic evocations
  • Aquinas
  • The passions of the soul
  • The virtues
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 3. Enlightenment Philosophies of Emotion
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • Descartes' little gland
  • The bio-social factors
  • Spinoza and affectus
  • Conatus
  • A dual-aspect monism
  • Affective change
  • Hume and moral sentimentalism
  • Hobbes and fear
  • Post-scepticism
  • Hume's psychology
  • The association of ideas
  • Reason enslaved to passion
  • Sympathy and the psychosocial
  • Kant's synthetic a priori
  • The rational being
  • Sympathy's infection
  • Affects and passions
  • Social passions
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 4. The Role of Emotion In The Development of Social Psychology As A Discipline
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • The `peculiar vividness of feeling'
  • Evolutionary psychology
  • William James' emotional `mind stuff'
  • Walter Cannon's emotional thalamus
  • The classification of emotion
  • William McDougall's introduction to social psychology
  • Pseudo-instincts
  • Lewin
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 5. Group Psychology and Emotion
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • Freud's drive theory
  • Affect and idea
  • Freud's group psychology
  • Libidinal ties
  • The pathologisation of the crowd
  • Deindividuation
  • Social norm theory
  • Social identity theory
  • Primitive emotional contagion
  • Primitive emotion
  • Asocial theory
  • Virality and contagion
  • Tarde
  • Somnambulism
  • Post-Freudian groups
  • Bion's basic assumptions
  • Foulkes' psychosocial theorisation
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 6. Biological Understandings of Emotion
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • Darwin's expressions
  • The universality thesis
  • Natural selection, habits and instincts
  • Darwin's determinism
  • Neo-Darwinism
  • The triune brain
  • LeDoux's amygdale
  • Triune critiques
  • Hemispheric distinctions
  • Split brain
  • Cultural factors
  • Affective neuroscience
  • Empathic mirroring
  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 7. Sociological Understandings of Emotion
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • A two factor model
  • The dramaturgical theory of emotion
  • Face-work
  • Feeling rules
  • Emotion work
  • The constructions of gendered emotion
  • Gendered assumptions
  • The subordination hypothesis
  • Sexual desire and emotional connectedness
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 8. Emotion Talk: Theories and Analysis
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • Emotional disclosure
  • Inhibition confrontation
  • Cognitive reappraisal
  • The multiple code theory
  • Referential activity
  • Content analysis of emotion
  • Discourse analysis of emotion
  • Combining methods
  • Incongruent rationalisation
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 9. Affect Theory: Post-Structuralist Accounts
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • Affect theory
  • Affect in Tomkins
  • Affect in Deleuze
  • Actual selection
  • Affect in Massumi
  • Affect and subjectivity
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 10. Digital Emotion
  • Key aims
  • Introduction
  • Simondon's technics
  • Affective collective baggage
  • Techno-biological emotion
  • Further reading.

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