The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions

INTRODUCTION: SOME COMPLEXITIES IN THE STUDY OF EMOTIONS Overview - W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]e Vignette 1 - Daniel N Robinson Aristotle on the Emotions Vignette 2 - James R Averill Intellectual Emotions PART ONE: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EMOTIONS Embarrassment and the Threat to Character - W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]e Guilt and Remorse - Gabrielle Taylor Shame and Guilt in Early New England - John Demos Social Control of `Negative' Emotions - Janet Landman The Case of Regret Vignette 3 - Christopher Ricks Keats and Embarrassment Vignette 4 - Inmaculada Iglesias Verg[um]uenza Ajena PART TWO: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL VARIETY IN EMOTIONS Historical Perspectives on Grief - Peter N Stearns and Mark Knapp Engendered Emotion - Catherine A Lutz Gender, Power and the Rhetoric of Emotional Control in American Discourse Emotion Talk across Cultures - Paul Heelas Vignette 5 - Kenneth T Strongman and Luke Strongman Maori Emotion PART THREE: THE BIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF EMOTION An Analysis of Psychophysiological Symbolism and Its Influence on Theories of Emotion - James R Averill Bodily 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 Duchaine Emotional Self-Control and Self-Perception - James D Laird and Nicholas H Apostoleris Feelings Are the Solution, Not the Problem Self-Attention - Shame - Shyness - Modesty - Charles Darwin Blushing Vignette 6 - Keith Oatley Emotions: Communications to the Self and Others Vignette 7 - Kenneth T Strongman A Private Eye into Disgust