Twenty-four of the most eminent researchers on emotion from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, sociology, philosophy, and economics provide an overview of the current status of emotion theory at the turn of the century. Their essays encompass up-to-date views on the nature of feelings and emotions; basic processes involved in feelings and emotions; the role of pleasure, feelings and emotions in a sociocultural context; and the relationships between emotions and morality.

For ages, women have been considered as the emotional sex. The aim of this book is to investigate this stereotype. A wide range of emotions, such as anger, pride, shame, sadness, and joy, and emotional expressions, such as smiling and laughing are covered in the various chapters. The purpose of each chapter is to show whether sex differences have been found in psychological research in relation to one of these aspects of emotion, in which situations these differences were especially strong, and how (the absence of) these differences can be explained. This book is the first in its field to...

For ages, women have been considered as the emotional sex. The aim of this book is to investigate this stereotype. A wide range of emotions, such as anger, pride, shame, sadness, and joy, and emotional expressions, such as smiling and laughing are covered in the various chapters. The purpose of each chapter is to show whether sex differences have been found in psychological research in relation to one of these aspects of emotion, in which situations these differences were especially strong, and how (the absence of) these differences can be explained. This book is the first in its field to...

Twenty-four of the most eminent researchers on emotion from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, sociology, philosophy, and economics provide an overview of the current status of emotion theory at the turn of the century. Their essays encompass up-to-date views on the nature of feelings and emotions; basic processes involved in feelings and emotions; the role of pleasure, feelings and emotions in a sociocultural context; and the relationships between emotions and morality.

Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast, this text tries to understand emotion from the outside, by examining three everyday social settings in which it operates: the surrounding culture and subculture; the more delimited organization or group; and finally the interpersonal setting.

For the past three decades theorizing and research on the relationship between culture and emotion has tended to concentrate on the seemingly straightforward issue of whether or not emotions are universal. This was reflected in a dispute in which it seemed only possible to choose between the two extremes, namely a cultural-relativist point of view or a universalist point of view. However, recent empirical evidence concerning cultural variation in emotion has expanded and is generally consistent with the view that an extreme position in this controversy is untenable. Currently, there is...