Collective Emotions Perspectives from psychology, philosophy, and sociology

Christian von Scheve, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany,Mikko Salmella, Academy Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland

Christian von Scheve is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Freie Universitat Berlin, where he heads the Research Area "Sociology of Emotion" at the Institute of Sociology. He is also affiliated to the Research Cluster "Languages of Emotion" at Freie Universitat and appointed Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Vienna and a Fellow of the Research Group "Emotions as Bio-Cultural Processes" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. He studied Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science at the University of Hamburg, where he obtained his doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences. He works in the sociology of culture and stratification as well as in economic sociology and social psychology and focuses on the manifold intersections of culture, society, and emotion.

Mikko Salmela is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a member of Finnish Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences. He worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001-2002 and at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in 2006-2007. Salmela studied Philosophy and Political History at the University of Helsinki where he obtained his doctorate in Social Sciences. His postdoctoral and subsequent research has focused on the philosophy of emotions from an interdisciplinarily informed perspective. In particular, he addresses questions about the nature and justification of emotions, both individual and collective; about the relation of emotions, values, and identity; and about the roles of collective affective phenomena in the structure and dynamics of social groups.

Volume Introducion, Christian von Scheve and Mikko Salmella
1. Shared feelings and the phenomenal subject of emotion, Hans Bernhard Schmid
2. The extended mind and its affects, Jan Slaby
3. Interaction ritual chains, social solidarity and morality, Randall Collins
4. Situated emotions and the social niche, Joel Krueger
5. Neural basis of empathy and intersubjectivity, Claus Lamm and Giorgia Silani
6. Emotional attention in social contexts, Tobias Brosch
7. Do we mimic what we see or what we know?, Ursula Hess, Stephanie Houde, and Agneta Fischer
8. Emotional contagion as a precursor of collective emotions, Elaine Hatfield, Megan Forbes, and Richard L. Rapson
9. Collective emotion and joint commitment, Margaret Gilbert
10. Relational emotions and social networks, Ilmo van der Lowe and Brian Parkinson
11. Social appraisal as a cause of collective emotions, Martin Bruder, Agenta Fischer, and Antony S. R. Manstead
12. Emotional communities of respect, Bennett W. Helm
13. Social exchange, relational cohesion and collective affect, Edward J. Lawler, Shane R. Thye, and Jeongkoo Yoon
14. Collective emotional experiences and the social sharing of emotion, Dario Paez and Bernard Rime
15. Religion, ritual, and collective emotion, David Knottnerus
16. From envy to rage? Social structure and collective emotions in contemporary "market society", Sighard Neckel
17. The nature of intergroup emotions, Devin Ray, Diane M. Mackie, and Eliot R. Smith
18. The social psychology of collective guilt, Mark A. Ferguson and Nyla R. Branscombe
19. Group properties and collective pride, Gavin Sullivan
20. Collective emotions and emotion regulation in interactable conflicts, Eran Halperin
21. The functions of shared affect in small groups and teams, Janice R. Kelly, Nicole Iannone, and Megan McCarty
22. Mass killing: A cybernetic theory, Thomas Scheff
23. Emotion and the formation of social identities, Joseph de Rivera
24. Emotion and social movements, James M. Jasper
25. The role of sentiment in the social web, Mike Thelwall and Arvid Kappas
26. Modelling collective emotional dynamics, David Garcia, Antonios Garas, and Frank Schweitzer
27. Interacting with collective emotions in e-communities, Marcin Skowron and Stefan Rank
28. Social sharing of emotions in large-scale social awareness streams, Funda Kivran-Swaine and Mor Naaman