INTRODUCTION: SOME COMPLEXITIES IN THE STUDY OF EMOTIONS
Overview - W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]e
Vignette 1 - Daniel N Robinson
Aristotle on the Emotions
Vignette 2 - James R Averill
Intellectual Emotions
PART ONE: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EMOTIONS
Embarrassment and the Threat to Character - W Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harr[ac]e
Guilt and Remorse - Gabrielle Taylor
Shame and Guilt in Early New England - John Demos
Social Control of `Negative¿ Emotions - Janet Landman
The Case of Regret
Vignette 3 - Christopher Ricks
Keats and Embarrassment
Vignette 4 - Inmaculada Iglesias
Verg[um]uenza Ajena
PART TWO: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL VARIETY IN EMOTIONS
Historical Perspectives on Grief - Peter N Stearns and Mark Knapp
Engendered Emotion - Catherine A Lutz
Gender, Power and the Rhetoric of Emotional Control in American Discourse
Emotion Talk across Cultures - Paul Heelas
Vignette 5 - Kenneth T Strongman and Luke Strongman
Maori Emotion
PART THREE: THE BIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF EMOTION
An Analysis of Psychophysiological Symbolism and Its Influence on Theories of Emotion - James R Averill
Bodily States and Context in Situated Lines of Action - Gerald P Ginsburg and Melanie E Harrington
`Facial Expression of Emotion¿ and the Delusion of the Hermetic Self - Alan J Fridlund and Bradley Duchaine
Emotional Self-Control and Self-Perception - James D Laird and Nicholas H Apostoleris
Feelings Are the Solution, Not the Problem
Self-Attention - Shame - Shyness - Modesty - Charles Darwin
Blushing
Vignette 6 - Keith Oatley
Emotions: Communications to the Self and Others
Vignette 7 - Kenneth T Strongman
A Private Eye into Disgust

This accessible book overviews the psychology of the emotions in its broadest sense by tracing historical, social, cultural and biological themes and analyses.