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No one really felt emotions before about 1830. Instead, they felt other things – ‘passions’, ‘accidents of the soul’, ‘moral sentime nts’ – and explained them very differently from how we understand emotions today. Some an cient G reeks believed a defiant rage was carried on an ill wind.
The history of emotions is a field of historical research concerned with human emotion, especially variations among cultures and historical periods in the experience and expression of emotions. Beginning in the 20th century with writers such as Lucien Febvre and Peter Gay, an expanding range of methodological approaches is being applied.
- Reaching Out Through Broadcast Media
- Emotions and Nursing − A Public Exhibition
- Enhancing The Emotional Vocabulary of Primary Schoolchildren
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Dixon has appeared on high-profile programmes including the Todayprogramme, Free Thinking, All in the Mind, Front Row andR5 Live Breakfastto discuss attitudes to emotions in public life. He has also written and presented for radio, includingFive Hundred Years of Friendship, a 15-part series broadcast on Radio 4. The Sound of Anger, the podcast seri...
From 2018 to 2020, the LWF project partnered with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to develop a major exhibition at their London headquarters and online: Who Cares? A History of Emotions in Nursing. Chaney’s research into the history of compassion in nursing, along with Dixon’s examination of the ‘stiff upper lip’ of WW1 nurse, Edith Cavell, info...
In 2019-2020, the LWF team collaborated with The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT), a large multi-academy trust in the South of England, to create and trial the Developing Emotions programme. Developing Emotions is a series of lessons (18 each for Year 3 and Year 5 children) which helps children to discuss and represent emotions using historical source...
Dixon and Chaney’s research shows us that emotions are neither basic nor hard-wired. We can use history to inform our discourse on emotions, and look beyond medical definitions which can pathologise some emotions. The LWF grant enabled Dixon and Chaney to apply this approach to particular emotions and emotional states – including tears, rage, love,...
Taken together, these three contributions make for a fuller and more accurate account of ideas about emotion during the century stretching from 1855 to just before 1960. Keywords: affect, appraisal, basic emotion, emotion, history, psychological construction. “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”.
According to the literature, no one really felt emotions before about 1830. Instead, they felt other things — ‘passions’, ‘accidents of the soul’, ‘moral sentiments’ — and ...
Emotions in History: The Beginnings. Professor David Konstan. David Konstan, Department of Classics. New York University, New York. dk87@nyu.edu. Despite the intensive study of emotions across a variety of disciplines over the past three decades, it still seems difficult, if not impossible, to define precisely what an emotion is.
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Aug 5, 2021 · The former highlights spaces where children are socialised into particular emotion norms and the latter describes locations where people, but especially children, encounter different emotional cultures and learn to navigate between both.17 Katie Barclay has offered the concept of the ‘emotional ethic’ that helps to explain how emotional life can also be a domain of moral behaviour and ...
