The Emotions

Rom Harré is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington, DC Professor W. Gerrod Parrott′s central interest is the nature of human emotion. His published work has focused on three areas: philosophical and historical approaches to the concept of emotion; emotion′s social foundations and functions, including such social emotions as embarrassment, shame, guilt, envy and jealousy; and the influence of emotion and emotional self-regulation on thought. He is the author of over 75 scholarly chapters and articles, and has published three books, Emotions and Culpability (with Norman Finkel, American Psychological Association, 2006), Emotions in Social Psychology (Psychology Press, 2001) and The Emotions: Social, Cultural, and Biological Dimensions (with Rom Harre′, Sage, 1996). He served from 1995-1999 as Editor of the Journal Cognition and Emotion, and is presently the President of the International Society for Research on Emotion

`There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole field... it is such a blockbuster that one can only reel backwards and tell anyone studying the subject that they would be crazy not to get it′ - Self & Society`The book consists of a series of erudite chapters on a wide array of emotions, including regret, hope, embarrassment and grief. It includes new research on emotion, but also incorporates a number of older key works, such as a chapter by Darwin on blushing. The book provides insight into why the biological perspective has dominated psychological explanations of emotion... A strong feature of the book is its emphasis on a range of emotions beyond the "basic" emotions. In order to explain other emotional reactions, theorists find it necessary to draw on social and cultural features... the book... forces more biologically inclined readers to consider whether their theories can be applied to the rich array of emotions′ - The Psychologist

• INTRODUCTION: SOME COMPLEXITIES IN THE STUDY OF EMOTIONSOverview - W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]eVignette 1 - Daniel N RobinsonAristotle on the EmotionsVignette 2 - James R AverillIntellectual EmotionsPART ONE: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EMOTIONSEmbarrassment and the Threat to Character - W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]eGuilt and Remorse - Gabrielle TaylorShame and Guilt in Early New England - John DemosSocial Control of `Negative′ Emotions - Janet LandmanThe Case of RegretVignette 3 - Christopher RicksKeats and EmbarrassmentVignette 4 - Inmaculada IglesiasVerg[um]uenza AjenaPART TWO: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL VARIETY IN EMOTIONSHistorical Perspectives on Grief - Peter N Stearns and Mark KnappEngendered Emotion - Catherine A LutzGender, Power and the Rhetoric of Emotional Control in American DiscourseEmotion Talk across Cultures - Paul HeelasVignette 5 - Kenneth T Strongman and Luke StrongmanMaori EmotionPART THREE: THE BIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF EMOTIONAn Analysis of Psychophysiological Symbolism and Its Influence on Theories of Emotion - James R AverillBodily States and Context in Situated Lines of Action - Gerald P Ginsburg and Melanie E Harrington`Facial Expression of Emotion′ and the Delusion of the Hermetic Self - Alan J Fridlund and Bradley DuchaineEmotional Self-Control and Self-Perception - James D Laird and Nicholas H ApostolerisFeelings Are the Solution, Not the ProblemSelf-Attention - Shame - Shyness - Modesty - Charles DarwinBlushingVignette 6 - Keith OatleyEmotions: Communications to the Self and OthersVignette 7 - Kenneth T StrongmanA Private Eye into Disgust