Emotion and Social Structures

<i> <p>Emotions and Social Structures</i> develops the argument that emotions play a key role in linking individual social action and the emergence and reproduction of social order. To do so this book integrates theoretical models and empirical evidence from a wide range of disciplines in particular psychology cognitive science and social and affective neuroscience. Christian von Scheve investigates the ways in which social structures serve as a basis for explaining the elicitation and experience of emotions as well as how emotions influence social action and ensuing social structural dynamics.</p>