Description
Book SynopsisThis fascinating book explores the different methodologies, resources and strategies that have been used to study emotion, and identifies emerging trends and research perspectives in the field.
Emotion is a subject that has been thoroughly investigated in all fields of social and behavioural sciences. And yet the more we have attempted to individualize emotions and set limits that separate the different types of emotions, the more the subject has resisted these categorizations. Mapping the changes and diverse perspectives in the study of emotion, author Simone Belli explores how a critical psychology of emotion has emerged in order to answer this paradox, examining emotions within a social framework. Divided into five chapters, the book uses interdisciplinary critical approaches to cover everything from the interaction between emotion and language, to emotional contagion such as the spread of fear in a pandemic. There is also a particular focus on emotion analysis in digital e
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Emotions and Language - The discursive turn 2. Emotional Affordance - The socio-material turn 3. The Gamification of Emotions - The digital turn 4. Between the Collectivity of Emotions and Emotional Contagion - The social turn 5. Working with Emotions - The management turn Conclusion
