The Expression of Emotion
Philosophical, Psychological and Legal Perspectives

The Expression of Emotion contains cutting-edge essays on emotional expression written by leading philosophers, psychologists, and legal theorists.

Catharine Abell (Edited by), Joel Smith (Edited by)

9781107527799, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2018

334 pages, 15 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.48 kg

The Expression of Emotion collects cutting-edge essays on emotional expression written by leading philosophers, psychologists, and legal theorists. It highlights areas of interdisciplinary research interest, including facial expression, expressive action, and the role of both normativity and context in emotion perception. Whilst philosophical discussion of emotional expression has addressed the nature of expression and its relation to action theory, psychological work on the topic has focused on the specific mechanisms underpinning different facial expressions and their recognition. Further, work in both legal and political theory has had much to say about the normative role of emotional expressions, but would benefit from greater engagement with both psychological and philosophical research. In combining philosophical, psychological, and legal work on emotional expression, the present volume brings these distinct approaches into a productive conversation.

Introduction: emotional expression Joel Smith and Catharine Abell
Part I. Philosophical Perspectives: 1. Expressing, showing and representing Mitchell Green
2. Emotions and their expressions James Sias and Dorit Bar-On
3. Expressive actions Christopher Bennett
4. Emotional expression, commitment, and joint value Bennett W. Helm
5. Collective emotion and the function of expressive behaviour Carolyn Price
Part II. Psychological Perspectives: 6. Emotional expression Hyisung C. Hwang and David Matsumoto
7. A skeptical look at faces as emotion signals James A. Russell
8. Cultural specificities in the transmission and decoding of facial expressions of emotion Rachael E. Jack
9. The impact of context on the perception of emotions Ursula Hess and Shlomo Hareli
10. The truth is written all over your face! Involuntary aspects of emotional facial expressions Alysha Baker, Pamela J. Black and Stephen Porter
Part III. Legal Perspectives: 11. Regulating the expression of remorse and the building of moral communities Richard Weisman
12. Share your grief but not your anger: victims and the expression of emotion in criminal justice Susan A. Bandes
13. Performing anger to signal injustice: the expression of anger in victim impact statements Sarah Sorial
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychology: emotions [JMQ], Social theory [JHBA], Social issues & processes [JFF], Cultural studies [JFC], Society & social sciences [J]