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This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Kovecses illustrates through detailed cross-linguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect wide-spread metaphorical patterns of thought. These emotion metaphors arise from recurring embodied experiences, one reason why human emotions across many cultures conform to certain basic biological-physiological processes in the human body and of the body interacting with the external world. The view proposed here demonstrates how cultural aspects of emotions, metaphorical language about the emotions, and human physiology in emotion are all part of an integrated system. Kovecses convincingly shows how this integrated system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion.

Written by experts in comparative, developmental, social, cognitive and cultural psychology, this book explains how we learn to value the different objects, people and events in our environment from others' emotions. It reveals why some things are so important to us, but not at all to others.

The Expression of Emotion presents a series of new, cutting-edge essays on emotional expression written by leading philosophers, psychologists, and legal theorists. It highlights areas of interdisciplinary research interest, including facial expression, expressive action, and the role of both normativity and context in emotion perception.

Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings.

Emotions play a powerful role in close relationships. Significant progress has been made in understanding how interpersonal emotion dynamics are associated with the development and maintenance of relationships across the lifespan. This book brings together perspectives from leading scholars, and is an important basis for future scientific work.

Emotional mimicry has important social functions such as signalling affiliative intent and fostering rapport, and is considered one of the cornerstones of successful interactions. This multidisciplinary overview of research into emotional mimicry and empathy explores when, how and why emotional mimicry occurs.

The Expression of Emotion presents a series of new, cutting-edge essays on emotional expression written by leading philosophers, psychologists, and legal theorists. It highlights areas of interdisciplinary research interest, including facial expression, expressive action, and the role of both normativity and context in emotion perception.

Emotional mimicry has important social functions such as signalling affiliative intent and fostering rapport, and is considered one of the cornerstones of successful interactions. This multidisciplinary overview of research into emotional mimicry and empathy explores when, how and why emotional mimicry occurs.

Non-verbal communication - specifically how we feel, what our attitudes are towards what we want to communicate, and what we want to achieve - are central to this book which discusses how face-to-face interaction via the Internet affects what we can and will do, and its limitations and potential benefits.

Non-verbal communication - specifically how we feel, what our attitudes are towards what we want to communicate, and what we want to achieve - are central to this book which discusses how face-to-face interaction via the Internet affects what we can and will do, and its limitations and potential benefits.

This 2007 book focuses on a more recent development that recognizes that the perceiver is also subject to the same social rules and norms that guide the expresser's behavior, and that knowledge of relevant emotion norms can influence how emotional expressions shown by members of different groups are perceived and interpreted.

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.

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 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.

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.

Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems.

This 2007 book focuses on a more recent development that recognizes that the perceiver is also subject to the same social rules and norms that guide the expresser's behavior, and that knowledge of relevant emotion norms can influence how emotional expressions shown by members of different groups are perceived and interpreted.

This 1999 book brings together some of the world's most senior figures in psychology, psychopathology, sociology and primatology to examine the role of intersubjectivity in early ontogeny. An invaluable resource for researchers in emotion and communication, it offers a different perspective on child development.

In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection. The book seeks to demonstrate how the core concepts and relationships invoked by accommodation theory are available for addressing altogether pragmatic concerns.

This 1990 book provides an examination of research and theory into the role that emotion plays in influencing social behavior. The contributors investigate a number of important domains such as aggression, altruism, romantic attraction, and consumer behavior and the role that affect plays in instigating and regulating these behaviors.

This reference work provides broad and up-to-date coverage of the major perspectives - ethological, neurobehavioral, developmental, dynamic systems, componential - on facial expression. It summarizes, critiques current research and provides guidelines for future research.

This volume presents, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on the role of nonverbal behavior in social interaction. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the reciprocal influences between nonverbal behavior and social variables.

Keith Oatley draws on theories from psychology, philosophy and linguistics, as well as writings from other social sciences, to show how emotions are central to any understanding of human actions and mental life.

This series addresses the nature and expression of emotion and the process of social interaction. It is intended to be an easily identifiable resource for scholars and students with shared mathodological concerns whose work derives from historically separate research traditions in psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, etiology, sociology, linguistics, and semiotics.

Bringing together thirteen original papers by leading American and British researchers, this volume reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation analysis. Through theoretical and methodological foundations, this collection examines organisation of preference, topic, non-vocal activities, and apparently spontaneous responses such as laughter and applause.

In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection. The book seeks to demonstrate how the core concepts and relationships invoked by accommodation theory are available for addressing altogether pragmatic concerns.

Offers new insights on the fundamental links between affect and cognition, and reports recent research and theories illustrating how affective states can play a subtle and often subconscious role in guiding peoples' thoughts, memories, judgments, attitudes and behaviors in social situations.

This volume presents, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on the role of nonverbal behavior in social interaction. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the reciprocal influences between nonverbal behavior and social variables.

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 1999 book brings together some of the world's most senior figures in psychology, psychopathology, sociology and primatology to examine the role of intersubjectivity in early ontogeny. An invaluable resource for researchers in emotion and communication, it offers a different perspective on child development.