Pub Date : 2024-08-31DOI: 10.1177/17540739241278933
Erkin Asutay, Hulda Karlsson, Daniel Västfjäll
In a recent special section on Sustainability and Emotion, Schneider and van der Linden present how sustainability science could benefit from affective science to address important unanswered questions about the psychological and affective antecedents of people's engagement in relatively high-impact sustainable behaviors. Here, we underline the importance of combining the motivational role of positive affect with an impact-focused research agenda to understand the causal role of affect in sustainable decision-making and to develop communication strategies harnessing affective mechanisms to promote impactful sustainable behaviors. We present potential links connecting affective experience with perceived impact and adoption of sustainable behaviors. Finally, we argue for communication strategies aiming to enhance positive affect associated with high-impact behaviors.
施奈德(Schneider)和范德林登(van der Linden)在最近的 "可持续发展与情感 "特别章节中介绍了可持续发展科学如何从情感科学中获益,以解决人们参与影响相对较大的可持续行为的心理和情感前因方面的重要未解之谜。在此,我们强调了将积极情感的激励作用与以影响为重点的研究议程相结合的重要性,以了解情感在可持续决策中的因果作用,并制定利用情感机制的交流策略,促进有影响的可持续行为。我们介绍了情感体验与可持续行为的感知影响和采用之间的潜在联系。最后,我们论证了旨在增强与高影响力行为相关的积极情感的传播策略。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1177/17540739241277942
Luiz Biondi, Nuno Gomes, Rafael S. Maior, Sandra C. Soares
Twenty years ago, Öhman and Mineka's publication “The Malicious Serpent” emphasized the selective pressure ancestral reptiles would have on early mammals’ visual system, specifically the development of a set of subcortical structures that would provide snake-like images privileged access to the amygdala. This process would occur automatically and allows for quick defensive reactions. Based on criticisms directed to the snake detection research, we created five questions that guided the discussion in this review. Evidence suggests the existence of a set of subcortical structures that promote prompt detection of snakes and sustained attention, but difficulties arise due to the complex interconnectivity of cortical and subcortical structures and multiple threat responses. Gaps in the research are identified as potential for future investigation.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/17540739241259562
Caitlyn Trevor, Sascha Frühholz
The question of why music evolved has been contemplated and debated for centuries across multiple disciplines. While many theories have been posited, they still do not fully answer the question of why humans began making music. Adding to the effort to solve this mystery, we propose the socio-affective fiction (SAF) hypothesis. Humans have a unique biological need for emotion regulation strengthening. Simulated emotional situations, like dreams, can help address that need. Immersion is key for such simulations to successfully exercise people's emotions. Therefore, we propose that music evolved as a signal for SAF to increase the immersive potential of storytelling and thereby better exercise people's emotions. In this review, we outline the SAF hypothesis and present cross-disciplinary evidence.
几个世纪以来,人们一直在思考和争论音乐进化的原因,涉及多个学科。虽然人们提出了许多理论,但仍无法完全解答人类为何开始创作音乐的问题。为了解开这个谜团,我们提出了社会情感虚构(SAF)假说。人类对加强情绪调节有着独特的生理需求。梦境等模拟情感情境有助于满足这种需求。沉浸式体验是此类模拟成功锻炼人们情绪的关键。因此,我们提出,音乐是作为 SAF 的信号进化而来的,它能增强讲故事的沉浸感,从而更好地锻炼人们的情绪。在本综述中,我们将概述 SAF 假设,并提供跨学科证据。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1177/17540739241259557
Giacomo Lampredi
This article defines a possible pragmatist approach to the sociology of emotions by discussing and delimiting the concept of “affective rupture.” According to this approach, emotions emerge from the breaking of habits in the face of the transformation of situations, producing reflexivity and relational adjustments. The pragmatist approach problematizes the “rhythm” of emotions, made up of ruptures, moments of quiet, adjustments, harmonizations, restorations, and relational revolutions. Rhythm is what emotions pragmatically “do,” ordering and transforming every social situation. This article employs this idea to reinterpret some sociological approaches to emotions and, in parallel, to show how the interdependence between affectivity and irruption of events that involve and upset is constitutive of everyone's social behaviors.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1177/17540739241233601
A. E. Denham
There is a long tradition in philosophy and literary theory defending the view that engagement with literature promotes readers’ empathy. Until the last century, few of the empirical claims adduced in that tradition were investigated experimentally. Recent work in psychology and neuropsychology has now shed new light on the interplay of empathy and literature. This article surveys the experimental findings, addressing three central questions: What is it to read empathically? Does reading make us more empathic? What characteristics of literature, if any, affect readers’ empathy? While experimental studies have delivered no conclusive answers to these questions, it has exposed their psychological complexity and constructed a more nuanced picture of the diverse ways in which literature interacts with our empathic capacities.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1177/17540739241231931
Lisa Zunshine
Attribution of mental states is fundamental to our engagement with fiction. Crucially, its social content depends on mental states recursively “embedded” within each other; for instance, when a person doesn’t want other people to know about her intentions. Given that some characters seem to be consistently capable of embedding mental states on a higher level than others, this essay reviews factors that may influence authors’ constructions of such mindreading hierarchies as well as their reversals. The argument focuses on the reversal scenes in films Goodbye Lenin, The Lives of Others, and Never Look Away, and on prosocial emotions evoked by their depiction of a more equitable distribution of a presumably valuable and scarce resource, that is, access to other people's minds.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1177/17540739241235111
Bradley J. Irish
This introduces the special issue “Literature and Emotion.”
在此介绍 "文学与情感 "特刊。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1177/17540739241231934
Stephen Ahern
The “affective turn” is by now long established, part of a wider surge of interest in emotion playing out in a range of disciplines. In literary studies, the conversation about how affect theory might help us to interpret literature is still emerging. The goal of the present discussion is to provide a critical overview of work by scholars who draw on the insights of recent theory to read literary texts written in English. At the same time that the discussion offers an appraisal of the current state of scholarship, it also seeks to identify emerging new directions in research.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/17540739241231932
Patrick Colm Hogan
Literature and Moral Feeling argued that ethics is best understood as a constraint on egocentric self-interest. That constraint is specified variously by groups or individuals who set parameters differently within common ethical principles, and who use a range of emotion-guided narrative genres to imagine and evaluate possible actions. Though it covers many ethical concerns (collectively termed “morality”), this account leaves out fairness (alternatively, justice). The following essay seeks to make up for that deficit. Framing its analysis by reference to a well-known problem in Milton's Paradise Lost, it distinguishes two systems of ethical response organized around first- and third-person perspectives. Like the first-person concerns of morality, third person concerns of justice are specified by setting parameters within common principles. In treating these principles and parameters, the essay articulates cognitive and affective components of third-person ethical evaluation. These, then, help to resolve the problem with Milton's poem. That resolution, in turn, suggests further complications in the account of ethical evaluation.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1177/17540739241232350
Emanuele Castano
Stories, in pictorial format, orally narrated, and later on as narrative texts, have played a key role in human evolution and to this day continue to surreptitiously teach us things and skills. In recent decades, psychologists and cognitive scientists have begun documenting the role of stories, and particularly fiction, in refining our sociocognitive skills. In this essay, I focus specifically on how stories, particularly written fiction, hone our emotion recognition skills. I present a brief overview of existing theorizing and research findings, and propose the less-is-more hypothesis, according to which emotion recognition skills are sharpened by stories that do not tell us, but rather show us the emotional life of fictional characters.
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