The emotions : social, cultural and biological dimensions / edited by Rom Harré and W. Gerrod Parrott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview / W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harré -- Aristotle on the emotions / Daniel N. Robinson -- Intellectual emotions / James R. Averill -- Embarrassment and the threat to character / W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harré -- Guilt and remorse / Gabrielle Taylor -- Shame and guilt in early New England / John Demos -- Social control of 'negative' emotions: the case of regret / Janet Landman -- Keats and embarrassment / Christopher Ricks -- Vergüenza ajena / Inmaculada Iglesias -- Historical perspectives on grief / Peter N. Stearns and Mark Knapp -- Engendered emotion: gender, power, and the rhetoric of emotional control in American discourse / Catherine A. Lutz -- Emotion talk across cultures / Paul Heelas -- Maori emotions / K.T. Strongman and L. Strongman -- An analysis of psychophysiological symbolism and its influence on theories of emotion / James R. Averill -- Bodily states and context in situated lines of action / G.P. Ginsburg and Melanie E. Harrington -- Facial expressions of emotions and the delusion of the hermetic self / Alan J. Fridlund and Bradley Duchaine -- Emotional self-control and self-perception: feelings are the solutions, not the problem / James D. Laird and Nicholas H. Apostoleris -- Self-attention, shame, shyness, modesty: blushing / Charles Darwin -- Emotions: communications to the self and others / Keith Oatley -- A private eye into disgust / K.T. Strongman.

"A theoretical synthesis by leading scholars in the field, The Emotions overviews the psychology of emotion in the broadest sense by tracing historical, social, cultural, and biological themes. The contributors explore the discursive nature of emotions, variations in and diversity of emotions across cultures, and the influence of emotions on culturally maintained patterns of emotion in their analyses. A selection of intriguing chapters reveals how emotions emerge in different societies, across gender lines, in different historical periods, and between children and adults, while others delve into the internal patterns of emotions within individuals that shape the expression of judgments about, attitudes toward, and regret for one's own actions or the actions of others. In addition, special vignettes peppered throughout the volume add engaging perspectives of the theories in action. Interdisciplinary and hitting on a topic of increasing interest to researchers, The Emotions presents a broad-ranging collection of inquiry vital to both students and scholars in social psychology, developmental psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cognitive anthropology."--Publisher description.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.