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Title The emotions : social, cultural and biological dimensions / edited by Rom Harré and W. Gerrod Parrott
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996

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Description viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Overview / W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harre. Vignette 1. Aristotle on the Emotions / Daniel N. Robinson. Vignette 2. Intellectual Emotions / James R. Averill -- 2. Embarrassment and the Threat to Character / W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harre -- 3. Guilt and Remorse / Gabrielle Taylor -- 4. Shame and Guilt in Early New England / John Demos -- 5. Social Control of 'Negative' Emotions: The Case of Regret / Janet Landman. Vignette 3. Keats and Embarrassment / Christopher Ricks. Vignette 4. Verguenza ajena / Inmaculada Iglesias -- 6. Historical Perspectives on Grief / Peter N. Stearns and Mark Knapp -- 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 -- 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
Summary This is a broad, interdisciplinary look at the psychology of emotions, tracing historical, social, cultural and biological themes and analysis
Notes "Some of the chapters have already been published in various forms"--Acknowledgements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Emotions.
Author Harré, Rom.
Parrott, W. Gerrod.
LC no. 96069000
ISBN 0803979290
0803979304 (paperback)