Exploring Emotions in Social Life

Preface and acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction Emotions, society and the emotionalisation of society

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 1 Happiness

- Emotion, critique and the future

Jordan McKenzie

Chapter 2 Empathy

- Putting yourself in someone else's shoes

Natalia Ruiz-Junco

Chapter 3 Freedom

- Feeling free in an (un)free world

Gunnar Colbjornsen Aakvaag and Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 4 Desire

- The pursuit of physical, psychological, interpersonal (and sexual) pleasure

Cheryl Harasymchuk, Pamela C. Regan and Susan Sprecher

Chapter 5 Jealousy

- Exploring the 'green-eyed monster'

Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Inger Glavind Bo

Chapter 6 Insecurity

- An enduring feeling of self-threat

Valerie de Courville Nicol

Chapter 7 Guilt

- Identity management in response to illegitimate social behaviour

Nobuhiko Goto and Mark A. Ferguson

Chapter 8 Disgust

- Reflections on the nauseating feeling of revulsion and repulsion

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 9 Humiliation

- The forgotten emotion

Bettina Muenster

Chapter 10 Pain

- From physical pain to social suffering

Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Inger Glavind Bo and Vibeke Graven

Chapter 11 Despair

- Contemplating the abyss

Rowena Ann Pecchenino

Chapter 12 Unemotionality

- Absence, emptiness and affective insensitivity

Tom Roberts

Index