Emotions as individual and social phenomena: Seeking new answers to old questions

• Authors: Tomasz Maruszewski , Aleksandra Jasielska , Dorota Szczygieł
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents state of art in the area of emotion studies. It is stressed that emotions are multicomponent processes including neural, expression, subjective and social elements. We have tried to show that synchronization and coordination of these elements from elementary through intermediate to the most complex level may be understood in terms of emergent processes. Manifestations of emergence may be observed both in social aspects of emotions, as well as subjective and expression ones. Although the idea of emergent processes was not explicitly used by contributors of this volume, the traces of it are present in their papers.

Keywords

EN

organization of emotions; emergent processes; emotions in social context

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 320-325

Dates

published

2015-09-01

online

2015-11-17

Contributors

author

Tomasz Maruszewski

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Sopot, Poland

author

Aleksandra Jasielska

• Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

author

Dorota Szczygieł

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Sopot, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0039