Bücher der Reihe Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

Emotion can result from interpreting group actions as reflecting on the self due to an association between the two. This volume considers the nature of collective guilt, antecedent conditions necessary for it to be experienced, how it can be measured, and how collective guilt differs from other group based emotions.

This book provides an overview of status of emotion theory by means of 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.

Speech most evidently differentiates people from animals, yet obvious links have been found between human and animal non-verbal vocal communication. In this book specialists from several disciplines review the present knowledge on neural substrates of vocal communication, on primate vocal communication, and on precursors and prerequisites of human speech.

This book provides an overview of status of emotion theory by means of 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.

It is generally accepted that emotions influence beliefs but until recently little research has been done on exactly how this effect takes place. This important new book explores the relationship between emotions and beliefs from a number of psychological perspectives and seeks to develop coherent theoretical principles for understanding it.

This 1993 volume brings together critical analysis of the phenomenon called interpersonal expectation - a sub-area of social psychology that studies how the expectations of one person affects the behavior of another in an interactive setting.

This book is a collection of essays on communication written by leading scholars in honor of the work of the late Gregory Bateson, one of the most provocative social scientists of the twentieth century. All chapters were written by scholars whose own work has been inspired by Bateson and his theory of communication.

When do people call someone emotional? Why is it generally accepted that women are emotional and men are not? What are the actual differences between men and women with regard to emotions? Leading scholars seek to address these questions and to disentangle the complex relationship between gender and emotion.

Identity and Emotion, first published in 2001, focuses on the individual development of identity and the processes involved. By working from emotions and a dynamic systems perspective the book offers an exciting approach to human identity and its development across the lifespan.