Emotions arise in individual experience, frequently with noticeable physiological signs, such as a racing heart, flushed or pallid face, tense gut, cold hands, and so forth, and thus may seem an unsuitable topic for sociological examination. This...
Emotional Change Timeline 1830–1919 ∼ Tentative Expression of Emotions Emotions are gender specific / Reason, not love, should determine marriages / Dolls’ wardrobes include mourning clothes and caskets (1870) / Women begin to express...
Emotion Over the centuries, the emotions have proven to be a notoriously recalcitrant philosophical subject, defying easy classification and stubbornly straddling accepted philosophical distinctions. With changing conceptions of the mind and its...
The role of emotions in moral behavior has been debated by ethicists since ancient Greece. The scientific study of emotions is much more recent, yet the advances in twenty-first century understanding of the neural mechanisms that subserve emotions take...
Technologies, particularly if they are new, often give rise to emotional reactions that are based on perceived risks. Recent examples of such technological risks involve cloning and genetically modified food; the use of nuclear energy continues to...
William James wrote that he would ‘as lief read verbal descriptions of the shapes of the rocks on a New Hampshire farm’ as toil again through the classic works on emotion, which lacked a ‘central point of view, a deductive or...
Emotions are mental states, sometimes described as ‘disturbances of mind’ that may be associated with certain subjective feelings and characteristic behavioural responses. In experimental psychology, emotions are generally described in...
At the end of the twentieth century, the predominant view within Western cultures of men’s relationship with emotions was characterised by terms such as ‘the inexpressive male’ and ‘restrictive emotionality’. In selfreport...
The emotional domain, or affective domain, is the one of feelings. It is essentially the feeling predispositions a person has towards another person or phenomenon. It is rarely discussed in traditional educational theory but it is one upon which a lot...
