A general theory of emotions and social life

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: TenHouten, Warren D.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:Routledge advances in sociology ; 24.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • From Darwin to psychoevolutionary theories of primary and secondary emotions
  • The four pairs of opposite primary emotions : acceptance and disgust, joy and sadness, anger and fear, anticipation and surprise
  • Secondary emotions : the four pairs of opposite primary dyads : love and misery, pride and embarrassment, aggressiveness and alarm, curiosity and cynicism
  • Secondary emotions, continued : the four pairs of half-opposite secondary dyads : dominance and submissiveness, optimism and pessimism, delight and disappointment, repugnance and contempt
  • Secondary emotions, continued : the eight tertiary dyads : resourcefulness and shock, morbidness and resignation, sullenness and guilt, anxiety and outrage
  • Secondary emotions, continued : the four antithetical, quaternary dyads : ambivalence, catharsis, frozenness, confusion
  • The sociorelational approach to the emotions : four elementary forms of sociality
  • Affect-spectrum theory : the emotions of rationality and of intimacy
  • Affect-spectrum theory, continued : the emotions linking informal community and formal society; a typology of four character structures
  • Social identity and social control : pride and embarrassment, pridefulness and shame
  • Socialization and the emotions : from alexithymia to symbolic elaboration and creativity
  • The development of tertiary emotions : jealousy, envy, ambition, confidence, and hope
  • Emotions, violence, and the self
  • A partial empirical test of affect-spectrum theory.