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Day Sclater, Shelley; Yates, Candida; Price, Heather and Jones, David W.
(2009).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245136_1
URL: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230216853
Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to the papers that make up this book. The psychosocial contributors represented here all share an interest in affect, the emotions and emotional life. Some recent writers (e.g. Blackman and Cromby, 2007) make clear distinctions between "emotion" and "affect", with, for example, "emotion" being used to refer to conscious experience, and "affect" to a more basic drive - or bodily based phenomenon. We agree with Greco and Stenner's (2008) suggestion that such distinctions are not always fruitful partly because the terms are used highly inconsistently. Emotions exist partly in the body, but they are also in our minds, in our language and in the cultures that surround us. They can be understood as a crucial bridge between the individual and the social, and are quintessentially psychosocial phenomena. They have a mercurial status, not existing without an individual to experience the emotion, but often having little significance without a socio-cultural framework that imbues feelings with meaning.
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
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- © 2009 Selection and editorial matter S. Day Sclater, D. W. Jones, J. Price and C. Yates, © individual chapters, their respective authors
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- David W. Jones