Collective Emotions

Christian von Scheve is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, where he heads the Research Area Sociology of Emotion at the Institute of Sociology. He is also affiliated to the Research Cluster "Languages of Emotion" at Freie Universität and appointed Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Vienna and a Fellow of the Research Group "Emotions as Bio-Cultural Processes" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. He studied Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science at the University of Hamburg, where he obtained his doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences. He works in the sociology of culture and stratification as well as in economic sociology and social psychology and focuses on the manifold intersections of culture, society, and emotion.Mikko Salmela is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a member of Finnish Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences. He worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001-2002 and at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in 2006-2007. Salmela studied Philosophy and Political History at the University of Helsinki where he obtained his doctorate in Social Sciences. His postdoctoral and subsequent research has focused on the philosophy of emotions from an interdisciplinarily informed perspective. In particular, he addresses questions about the nature and justification of emotions, both individual and collective about the relation of emotions, values, and identity and about the roles of collective affective phenomena in the structure and dynamics of social groups.

• Volume Introducion ; Section 1: Conceptual Perspectives ; 1. The Feeling of Being a Group: Corporate Emotions and Collective Conscious ; 2. How we feel: Understanding everyday collective emotion ascription ; 3. Emotions and the Extended Mind ; 4. Emotional Communities of Respect ; Section 2: Collective Emotions in Face-to-Face Interactions ; 5. Insights into collective emotions from the social neuroscience of empathy ; 6. Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of attentional prioritization in social interactions ; 7. Do we mimic what we see or what we know? ; 8. Emotional Contagion as a Precursor to Collective Emotions ; Section 3: The Social-Relational Dimension of Collective Emotion ; 9. Relational emotions and social networks ; 10. Social appraisal as a cause of collective emotions ; 11. Emotions and the Social Niche ; Section 4: The Social Consequences of Collective Emotions ; 12. The Function of Shared Affect in Groups ; 13. The Emergence of Collective Emotions in Social Exchange ; 14. Collective Emotional Gatherings: Their impact upon identity fusion, shared beliefs and social integration ; 15. Emotion and the Formation of Social Identities ; Section 5: Group-Based and Intergroup Emotion ; 16. Intergroup Emotion: Self-Categorization, Emotion, and the Regulation of Intergroup Conflict ; 17. The Social Psychology of Collective Guilt ; 18. Collective pride, happiness and celebratory emotions: Aggressive, network and cultural models ; 19. Collective Emotions and Emotion Regulation in Intractable Conflicts ; Section 6: Rituals, Movements, and Social Organization ; 20. Interaction Ritual Chains and Collective Effervescence ; 21. Religion, Ritual, and Collective Emotion ; 22. Political Emotion ; 23. Emotions, Sociology, and Protest ; 24. Emotional Knowledge, Emotional Styles, and Religion ; Section 7: Collective Emotions in Online Social Systems ; 25. The Role of Sentiment in the Social Web ; 26. Modelling collective emotions in online social systems ; 27. Interacting with Collective Emotions in e-Communities ; 28. Gender and Social Sharing of Emotions in Large-Scale Social Awareness Streams ; Index