Collective Emotions

Christian von Scheve, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, Mikko Salmella, Academy Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland Christian von Scheve is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Freie Universitat Berlin, where he heads the Research Area "Sociology of Emotion" at the Institute of Sociology. He is also affiliated to the Research Cluster "Languages of Emotion" at Freie Universitat and appointed Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Vienna and a Fellow of the Research Group "Emotions as Bio-Cultural Processes" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. He studied Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science at the University of Hamburg, where he obtained his doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences. He works in the sociology of culture and stratification as well as in economic sociology and social psychology and focuses on the manifold intersections of culture, society, and emotion. Mikko Salmela is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a member of Finnish Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences. He worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001-2002 and at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in 2006-2007. Salmela studied Philosophy and Political History at the University of Helsinki where he obtained his doctorate in Social Sciences. His postdoctoral and subsequent research has focused on the philosophy of emotions from an interdisciplinarily informed perspective. In particular, he addresses questions about the nature and justification of emotions, both individual and collective; about the relation of emotions, values, and identity; and about the roles of collective affective phenomena in the structure and dynamics of social groups.

Volume Introducion ; 1. Shared feelings and the phenomenal subject of emotion ; 2. The extended mind and its affects ; 3. Interaction ritual chains, social solidarity and morality ; 4. Situated emotions and the social niche ; 5. Neural basis of empathy and intersubjectivity ; 6. Emotional attention in social contexts ; 7. Do we mimic what we see or what we know? ; 8. Emotional contagion as a precursor of collective emotions ; 9. Collective emotion and joint commitment ; 10. Relational emotions and social networks ; 11. Social appraisal as a cause of collective emotions ; 12. Emotional communities of respect ; 13. Social exchange, relational cohesion and collective affect ; 14. Collective emotional experiences and the social sharing of emotion ; 15. Religion, ritual, and collective emotion ; 16. From envy to rage? Social structure and collective emotions in contemporary "market society" ; 17. The nature of intergroup emotions ; 18. The social psychology of collective guilt ; 19. Group properties and collective pride ; 20. Collective emotions and emotion regulation in interactable conflicts ; 21. The functions of shared affect in small groups and teams ; 22. Mass killing: A cybernetic theory ; 23. Emotion and the formation of social identities ; 24. Emotion and social movements ; 25. The role of sentiment in the social web ; 26. Modelling collective emotional dynamics ; 27. Interacting with collective emotions in e-communities ; 28. Social sharing of emotions in large-scale social awareness streams