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Sobering, Katherine. The People's Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Katherine Sobering is an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Texas. [...]

In a diary study of interpersonal affect transfer, 41 participants reported on decisions involving other people over 3 weeks. Reported anxiety and excitement were reliably related to the perceived anxiety and excitement of another person who was present during decision making. Risk and importance appraisals partially mediated effects of other's anxiety on own anxiety as predicted by social appraisal theory. However, other's emotion remained a significant independent predictor of own emotion after controlling for appraisals, supporting the additional impact of more direct forms of affect transfer such as emotion contagion. Significant affect-transfer effects remained even after controlling for participants' perceptions of the other's emotion in addition to all measured appraisals, confirming that affect transfer does not require explicit registration of someone else's feelings. This research provides some of the clearest evidence for the operation of both social appraisal and automatic affect transfer in everyday social life. Keywords: affect transfer; social appraisal; emotion contagion; decision making

Frederic Bartlett emphasizes that feeling always depends not on a single tendency but on relations between different tendencies. In terminology relating to affect theory, tendency might be replaced by contemporary appraisal theorists with concern, motive or goal. Other contemporary interpretations of appraisal theory are also discussed.

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00563.x Byline: Tania Tam (1), Miles Hewstone (2), Jared B. Kenworthy (3), Ed Cairns (4), Claudia Marinetti (5), Leo Geddes (5), Brian Parkinson (5) Abstract: Even after a conflict has formally ended, there is still a need for postconflict reconciliation and the building of mutual forgiveness and trust between communities. This article addresses psychological processes crucial to moving beyond a history of violent sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. We investigated the predictors of intergroup forgiveness, in terms of intergroup emotions, infrahumanization, empathy, and intergroup contact. Intergroup trust and measures of implicit intergroup bias were also explored in this area of real intergroup conflict. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for postconflict reconciliation in Northern Ireland and other conflict areas. Author Affiliation: (1)Legal Services Research Centre (2)University of Oxford (3)University of Texas at Arlington (4)University of Ulster (5)University of Oxford Article note: (*) Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dr. Tania Tam, Legal Services Research Centre, 85 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8TX [e-mail: tania.tam@legalservices.gov.uk].

In this paper, I question the assumption that emotions are first and foremost individual reactions, and suggest instead that they are often best viewed as social phenomena. I show that many of the causes of emotions are interpersonally, institutionally or culturally defined; that emotions usually have consequences for other people; and that they serve interpersonal as well as cultural functions in everyday life. Furthermore, many cases of emotion are essentially communicative rather than internal and reactive phenomena. Previous research has often underestimated the importance of social factors in the causation and constitution of emotion. In conclusion, I recommend that existing cognitive and physiological approaches to emotional phenomena be supplemented or supplanted by social psychological analysis., The prevalent conception of emotions in psychology as well as common sense assumes that they are essentially internal and personal reactions. This general assumption has led to two basic consequences [...]

Two simple non-linear techniques are shown to be useful for understanding the dynamics of affect, symptoms, social interaction experience and cognitive performance. The techniques are justified by arguments derived from chaos theory, and demonstrated using data from an intensive time sampling study in which 30 subjects completed a set of self-ratings and a memory task on a hand-held computer every two hours during waking hours for 14 days. The data were pooled and two types of Poincare plot were constructed for each variable. The first was a plot of each value against its predecessor, and the second was a plot of each change in value from one interval to the next against the previous change. These plots are particularly suitable for uncovering asymmetric state-dependent changes in control between time points. The plots showed a number of distinctive 'fingerprints' for the different variables. Altogether, the results suggest that the plots are a novel and useful method for understanding psychological variables in terms of their dynamic control., Do feelings and behaviours fluctuate in ways that are deterministic but not linear and not rhythmic? For example, the size of a fluctuation in mood intensity or a change in [...]

A computerized diary method was used to investigate relations between momentary and generalized affect reports. Thirty participants rated current mood at 2-hourly intervals and gave retrospective reports of daily and weekly mood for a 2-week period. Average momentary ratings provided a closer estimate of daily mood than either peak or most recent momentary ratings. Similarly, average daily mood indexes tended to give the best estimates of weekly mood. However, for positive (but not negative) mood, daily reports were consistently higher than average momentary ratings, and weekly reports were consistently higher than average daily ratings. Regression analyses suggested that daily ratings were influenced mainly by average momentary mood but that independent effects of peak and most recent momentary mood were detectable too. Retrospective reports of daily mood were also influenced by current mood. In general, however, memory for affect was rather better than previous research has implied.

It is difficult to define emotions, although many have used different techniques to try. In an attempt to combine some of the best of prior techniques and to control for the disadvantages, 42 psychology students between 18 and 35 years old were asked to compare and contrast eight different emotions provided them, by developing their own personal constructs as to the definitions of the emotions. The emotions were love, anger, fear, happiness, hate, sadness, guilt, and envy. It was found through statistical analysis of the responses that subjects used four dimensions by which to contrast emotions with one another: evaluation, direction, duration, and causation. Though not included in this study, it would be useful to further sector these dimensions to provide more specific distinctions. The findings, however, make it possible to study a wide range of individual variables such as sex and socioeconomic class in relation to emotions, and should provide a useful technique for further research. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

INTRODUCTION An examination of 'Operation Peace for Galilee,' Israel's first major foray into Lebanon, seems more appropriate now than ever, especially after the 2006 Saif al-Harrar, or hot summer. In [...]

A study is conducted to assess whether mere exposure to upright faces results in greater generalization of liking than mere exposure to inverted faces. The findings suggest that mere exposure for upright faces presented at any angle may easily generalize to other views of the face, but that generalization is less efficient for perceptually matched inverted faces.

Brian Parkinson [*] Participants reported on two recent experiences of anger, of which one had occurred while they were driving and the other in a non-driving situation. Anger while driving [...]

White, Jenny B. Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey New York: Routledge, 2004.Jenny B. White's anthropological study of the women's piecework industry in Istanbul adds a new [...]