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Emotions are inherently social
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- Over the last two decades, however, an increasing scholarly awareness has emerged that emotions are inherently social —that is, they tend to be elicited by other people, expressed toward other people, and regulated to influence other people or to comply with social norms (Parkinson, 1996; Van Kleef, 2009; Fischer and Manstead, in press).
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00896/full
We discuss the findings in relation to emotional contagion, emotional intelligence, emotion regulation, emotions as social information (EASI) theory, and the functionality of emotions in engendering social influence.
The Social Nature of Emotions. Emotions are a defining aspect of the human condition. They pervade our social and professional lives, influence our thinking and behavior, and profoundly shape our relationships and social interactions.
Jun 11, 2015 · The emotions that human beings experience play a fundamental role in all social phenomena. As a result, sociology needs to incorporate the analysis of affective structures and emotional dynamics into its objects of study.
- Eduardo Bericat
- 2016
Sep 1, 2021 · Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We examine the functional neuroanatomy and neurobiology of social feelings and their role in adaptive social functioning.
- Paul J. Eslinger, Silke Anders, Tomasso Ballarini, Sydney Boutros, Soren Krach, Annalina V. Mayer, J...
- 2021
Jun 1, 2009 · Emotion in social relations: Cultural, group, and interpersonal processes. New York: Psychology Press. Presents a deeply social conception of emotion, arguing persuasively that emotions are first and foremost social (rather than individual) phenomena.
- Gerben A. Van Kleef
- 2009
Jul 11, 2023 · Organizational scholars have treated emotions mostly as an individual-level phenomenon, with limited theorisation of emotions as an important component in social embeddedness. In this review essay, we argue for the need for a toolkit to study emotions as an inherently social phenomenon.
The social regulation of emotion refers to one individual (the regulator) deliberately attempting to change the emotional response of another individual (the target), and several literatures have examined social regulatory phenomena.
