Social Life of Emotions

This book showcases research and theory about the way in which the social environment shapes, and is shaped by, emotion. The book has three sections, each of which addresses a different level of sociality: interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup. The first section refers to the links between specific individuals, the second to categories that define multiple individuals as an entity, and the final to the boundaries between groups. Emotions are found in each of these levels and the dynamics involved in these types of relationship are part of what it is to experience emotion. The chapters show how all three types of social relationships generate, and are generated by, emotions. In doing so, this book locates emotional experiences in the larger social context.

Larissa Z. Tiedens is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She earned her BA in Psychology at Carleton College and her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused on emotions in social contexts, cognitive consequences of emotions, and processes involved in stratification. Colin Wayne Leach is Associate Professor in the social psychology program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his academic training at Boston University, University of Michigan, and University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Immigrant Life in the US: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (with Donna R. Gabaccia, 2013).