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2018
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(2018): The moral psychology of anger. London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield International (Moral psychology of the emotions)
Abstract: The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in philosophy and the current social and political interest in anger, the editors explain its resilience in our emotional lives and normative frameworks, and examine what inhibits and encourages thoughts, feelings, and expressions of anger. This volume also examines the ways in which rage--anger's cousin--is a moral emotion, what black rage is and how it is policed in our society and how berserker rage is limited and problematic for the contemporary military. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Anger, Emotions, Emotionsforschung, Moral, Morality, Philosophies, social psychology, Sozialpsychologie -
(2018): Moral Emotions Toward Others at Work and Implications for Employee Behavior. A Qualitative Analysis Using Critical Incidents. In: Journal of Business and Psychology 33 (1), S. 155-180. DOI: 10.1007/s10869-016-9484-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-016-9484-3 Abstract: We propose a theoretical framework for and, via critical incidents, inductively investigate (a) the situations that trigger moral emotions toward others at work and (b) worker responses to these situations. Critical incidents were collected from a heterogeneous sample of 423 workers. Participants described an incident that caused each of four moral emotions (gratitude, anger, admiration, and contempt) and their response. Incidents and responses were coded, and frequencies, differences across the moral emotions, and associations between incidents and responses were analyzed. Several morally relevant situations at work were found to trigger the moral emotions. Participants responded in ways that had implications for their performance and their own well-being. The incidents largely align with moral foundations theory (Haidt and Graham in Social Justice Research, 20, 98–116, 2007). Responses also show evidence for social exchange, social learning, and rational expectancy-ba sed proc esses and behavior. The incidents specify several practices for managers and organizations to encourage and avoid. This was the first qualitative study of moral emotions at work and one of the few workplace studies to examine these emotions empirically. Several understudied factors and behavioral responses emerged. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
2017
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(2017): The effect of reactive emotions expressed in response to another's anger on inferences of social power. In: Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 17 (4), S. 717-727. DOI: 10.1037/emo0000262
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000262 Abstract: Social perception of emotions is influenced by the context in which it occurs. One such context is a social interaction involving an exchange of emotions. The way parties to the interaction are perceived is shaped by the combination of emotions exchanged. This idea was examined by assessing the extent to which expressions of anger toward a target-which, in isolation, are perceived as signals of high social power-are influenced by the target's emotional reaction to it (i.e., reactive emotions). Three studies show that the angry person was perceived as having a higher level of social power when this anger was responded by fear or sadness than when it was responded by neutrality or anger. Study 1 indicated that reactive emotions have a stronger effect on perceived social power when emotions were incongruent with gender stereotypes. Study 2 indicated that these effects are a result of these emotions serving as reactive emotions rather than a benchmark against which the angry person's power is assessed. Study 3 showed that reactive emotions affect perceived social power by serving as signals of the level to which the high social power suggested by the first person's expression is confirmed by its target. Comparing effects of reactive emotions to anger with reactive emotions to sadness, showed that perceived social power of the expresser is determined by the nature of the expression, with some adjustment caused by the reactive emotions. This underscores the importance of social interaction as a context for the social perception of emotions. (PsycINFO Database Record
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(2017): Justifying Deviant Behavior. The Role of Attributions and Moral Emotions. In: Journal of Business Ethics 141 (4), S. 779-795. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3046-5
Abstract: We present two studies investigating the impact of causal perceptions and the moral emotions of anger, shame, and guilt on the justification of deviant workplace behavior. Study 1 tests our conceptual framework using a sample of undergraduate business students; Study 2 examines a population of practicing physicians. Results varied significantly between the two samples, suggesting that individual and contextual factors play an important role in shaping the perceptual and emotional processes by which individuals form reactions to undesirable affective workplace events. Implications of these findings for the study of ethics, emotions, and attributions, as well as for promoting ethical behavior, are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 9
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(2017): Communicating Moral Motives. The social signaling function of disgust.. In: Social Psychological and Personality Science 8 (6), S. 632-640. DOI: 10.1177/1948550616679236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616679236 Abstract: Disgust motivates pathogen avoidance, but it is unclear why it is also reported toward moral violations. Previous explanations have focused on identifying the type of violation specific to disgust. Here, we propose that people express disgust toward any type of moral violation in order to communicate particular motives. Unlike anger, which can be seen as self-interested, disgust communicates a more principled, moral motivation. Two experiments show that observers infer more moral motivation from an expression of disgust and more self-interested motivation from anger. Two further experiments testing participants’ own expression decisions demonstrate that disgust is chosen more to show moral concern and anger is chosen to protest harm to one’s self-interest. By shifting focus to the interpersonal effects of emotion expressions, these findings offer a new perspective for understanding the role of disgust in morality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights res erved) zitiert von: 7
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(2017): Third-party anger and being moved. kumulative Dissertation. Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät. Online verfügbar unter http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100248957.
DOI: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100248957 Abstract: Moralisches und unmoralisches Verhalten kann mit starken Emotionen verbunden sein. Beispielsweise kann das Beobachten einer Ungerechtigkeit echte Empörung auslösen (d. h. third-party anger). Außergewöhnliche Hilfsbereitschaft dagegen kann zu Gefühlen des Bewegtseins und der Überwältigung führen (d. h. being moved). Am Beispiel dieser Emotionen beleuchtet die vorliegende Dissertation wie Moral und Emotionen zusammenhängen. Dafür wurde die Rolle von Konsequenzen und Normen für emotionale Reaktionen und damit verbundene Verhaltensweisen anhand von sechs empirischen Studien untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Gefühle des Bewegtseins das positive Pendent zu Ärger darstellen. Während Ärger durch Normverletzungen ausgelöst wird (z. B. Ungerechtigkeit oder Respektlosigkeit), werden Gefühle des Bewegtseins durch das Beobachten positiver Normabweichungen ausgelöst (z. B. ungewöhnliche Hilfsbereitschaft oder außergewöhnliche Leistung). Diese emotionalen Episoden scheinen wesentlich für ein soziales Zusammenleben zu sein, da sie mit Bestrafungsentscheidungen, politischen Wahlentscheidungen und ehrenamtlicher Arbeit verbunden waren. Wie diese Emotionen ausgelöst werden konnte wesentlich besser erklärt werden, wenn bestehende Methoden zur Erfassung von Appraisals (d. h. subjektiven Bewertungen) erweitert wurden. Zusammengenommen zeigen diese Befunde auf, wie Appraisaltheorien auf moralische Emotionen angewendet werden können und tragen dazu bei, Verbindungen zwischen moralischen Grundsätzen und Emotionen zu identifizieren. Sie weisen außerdem auf praktische Implikationen hin, wie der Auslösung von Ärger durch Medien und der Rolle von Gefühlen des Bewegtseins in Überzeugungsprozessen. Moral and immoral behavior can elicit strong emotions. For instance, people can get outraged when they witness unfair behavior (i.e., they experience third-party anger) and they can be intensely moved and overwhelmed by exceptional helpfulness (i.e., they experience feelings of being moved). Using these feelings of third-party anger and being moved as examples, this dissertation set out to clarify how morality and emotions are related. Specifically, the role of outcomes and norms for emotional reactions and behavioral consequences were investigated within six empirical studies. Results indicate that third-party anger and feelings of being moved are counterparts: whereas witnessing behavior that violates norms (e.g., unfairness or disrespect) elicits anger, witnessing behavior that surpasses norms (e.g., exceptional helpfulness or outstanding achievement) elicits feelings of being moved. These emotional episodes seem to be highly relevant for social life as they were associated with punishment decisions, voting intentions and voluntary work. Explaining the elicitation of these emotions was improved when expanding established appraisal assessment methods. Taken together, these findings provide a framework for applying appraisal research to moral emotions and contribute to identifying links between moral principles and emotions. In addition, they point to practical implications concerning anger-induction through the media and the role of being moved in persuasion processes.
Keywords: Anger, Appraisals, Ärger, Being Moved, Bewegtsein, CP 3200, CQ 5100, emotion, Emotionsforschung, Moral, Morality 2016
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(2016): Ein bisschen Wut tut gut - warum Manager moralisch motivierte Wut ernst nehmen sollten. In: Wirtschaftspsychologie aktuell 23 (1), S. 57-60
Abstract: Es wird die Wut im Arbeitsleben als alltagliches Phanomen und normale Begleiterscheinung bei Interaktionsprozessen zwischen Individuen erortert. Dabei geht es vor allem um den sensiblen Umgang von Fuhrungskraften mit Emotionen von Mitarbeitern. Haufig handelt es sich dabei um prosoziale oder moralisch motivierte Wut (MMW), die sich von herkommlicher Wut unterscheidet. Die MMW ist eine Emotion, die ein Fehlverhalten bewertet, um es dann verantwortungsbewusst zu korrigieren. In diesem Sinne ist MMW ein erregter Gemutszustand, der durch die Verletzung moralischer Standards hervorgerufen wird, andere mehr betrifft als das handelnde Individuum selbst und ein Korrekturverhalten nach sich zieht, selbst wenn es fur dieses Individuum ein Risiko darstellt. Dafur werden zwei Praxisbeispiele (Der Fall Edward Snowden und der VW-Abgasskandal) zitiert und am Beispiel des Films "Die zwolf Geschworenen"wird aufgezeigt, wie Handeln durch MMW beeinflusst wird. Fur Fuhrungskrafte ist es wichtig, verschiedene Arten der Wut zu erkennen und zwischen Wut als Personlichkeitsmerkmal (trait anger) und situationsbedingte Emotion (state anger) zu differenzieren. Nur so konnen Warnsignale von MMW erkannt und richtig eingeordnet werden.
2015
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(2015): How Threats to Masculinity Sequentially Cause Public Discomfort, Anger, and Ideological Dominance Over Women. In: Social Psychology 46 (4), S. 242-254. DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000248
Abstract: This research examined whether threats to masculinity both inspired men’s efforts to reestablish their power over women via the promotion of ideologies that implicitly subordinate women and occurred when men were outperformed by women in masculine domains. Masculinity was threatened by telling men they scored like women on a gender knowledge test (Rudman & Fairchild, 2004), which sequentially led to more concern about how they were perceived by others, increased anger, and the increased endorsement of social dominance orientation (Study 1a) and benevolent sexism (Study 1b). Study 2 additionally shows that men experienced threats to masculinity when outperformed by women in masculine domains; when outperformed by a woman, men reported more concern about how they looked to others, which predicted increased anger and the subsequent sexualization of the woman. The findings link masculinity threats to the promotion of ideologies that implicitly subordinate women; the consequences of these linkages are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 21
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(2015): Anger as driving factor of moral courage in comparison with guilt and global mood. A multimethod approach. In: European Journal of Social Psychology 45 (1), S. 39-51
Abstract: Examined the roles of anger and guilt in stimulating moral courage as a response to observed norm violations and assessed the effect of global positive or negative mood on the impact of these specific moral responses. The authors hypothesized that anger and guilt drive moral courage, and that intervention strength is positively related to the strength of emotional reaction. They also hypothesized that the effects of anger are not affected by guilt feelings or by global mood. Participants were part of a real theft scenario in the laboratory. A multimethod emotion assessment compared participants' self-reports of guilt and anger online during the study and again after being debriefed (retrospective). Observer ratings of their responses during the theft scenario completed the assessment. Findings showed that only anger predicted intervention behavior. Measures of guilt and intervention strength correlated positively online, as expected. However, contrary to expectations, retrospective self-reports of guilt were unrelated to intervention strength in both phases. In Phase 2, a significant negative association between positive mood and intervention strength and a positive correlation between negative mood and intervention strength could be identified. In conclusion, findings indicate that individuals who experience and express anger more strongly appear to be able to overcome the psychological barrier of potentially negative social response and act in situations requiring fast and immediate intervention. zitiert von: 14
Keywords: Anger, Courage, Emotional States, Guilt, Intervention, Moral, Morality, Personal Values, Social Influences, Social Norms, Sozialpsychologie -
(2015): Young Women’s Anger in Romantic Relationships. Gendered Rules and Power. In: Journal of Family Issues 38 (13), S. 1825-1851. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X15592029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X15592029 Abstract: We used a social constructionist and feminist framework to examine how young women negotiate gendered rules for anger in their romantic relationships and how such negotiations are associated with women’s power in these relationships. We analyzed 24 interviews using a grounded-theory methodology. Our analyses indicated five women resisted gendered rules for anger as they accepted their anger, attributed shared responsibility for their anger, and expressed their anger externally and directly. The other 19 young women followed gendered rules for anger as they distanced themselves from their anger, ambivalently attributed responsibility for their anger, and kept their anger in and expressed it indirectly. Women who resisted gendered rules for anger narrated being engaged in egalitarian relationships, while women who followed gendered rules for anger seemed to participate in nonegalitarian relationships. The findings of this study offer a feminist conceptualization of women⍊ s ange r in terms of social rules for anger experience and expression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Anger, Emotions, Family, feminism, Geschlechterforschung, Human Females, Partnerschaft/ Beziehung, Romance, rules -
(2015): How emotional expressions shape prosocial behavior. Interpersonal effects of anger and disappointment on compliance with requests. In: Motivation and Emotion 39 (1), S. 128-141. DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9421-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-014-9421-6 Abstract: People often express emotion to influence others, for instance when making a request. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how such emotional expressions shape compliance. We investigated the interpersonal effects of anger and disappointment on compliance with requests. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were more willing to offer help and donate to charity when a request was accompanied by disappointment rather than anger or no emotion. In Experiment 3, which involved a behavioral paradigm, emotional expressions trumped the effect of an explicit descriptive norm: Expressions of disappointment fostered generosity despite a non-generous norm, and expressions of anger undermined generosity despite a generous norm. Mediation analyses in Experiments 2 and 3 revealed that disappointment was more effective than anger in eliciting compliance because it was perceived as more appropriate for the context. Findings are discussed in relation to theorizing on social influence and the soc ial functions of emotions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 25
2012
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(2012): Justice and Conflicts. Theoretical and Empirical Contributions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Abstract: Explained the complex construct of moral courage. Moral courage is defined as courageous behavior accompanied by anger and indignation which intends to enforce societal and ethical norms without regard to one's own social costs. It is the risk of negative social consequences that distinguishes moral courage from other forms of prosocial behavior. Similarities and differences between moral courage, heroism, and social control are discussed. Determinants promoting or inhibiting morally courageous behavior include situational factors and particular personality traits including justice sensitivity, empathy, high self-assurance, and open-mindedness. The presence or absence of others has been found to be a particularly significant determinant of helping behavior but not morally courageous behavior. Training programs designed to promote moral courage are outlined. In summary, moral courage is an important concept and should be promoted within society. zitiert von: 59
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(2012): Perception of social participation in borderline personality disorder. In: Clinical psychology & psychotherapy 19 (6), S. 473-480. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.772
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22076727 Abstract: Interpersonal dysfunction is a key feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Distorted perception of participation in social situations and altered emotional responses could contribute to these typical interpersonal problems in BPD. Thirty patients with BPD were compared with a healthy control group (n = 30) in their perceptions and subjective emotional reactions to situations of social inclusion and exclusion. Participants played Cyberball, a virtual ball-tossing paradigm, in which social inclusion and exclusion are experimentally induced. Control participants reacted with an increase in sadness, anger and overall negative affect when excluded. In BPD patients, social exclusion also induced anger, while general participating in the game seemed to reduce levels of sadness. Compared with healthy controls, BPD patients felt more readily excluded independent of the condition of inclusion or exclusion. In conclusion, patients with BPD displayed a negative bias toward perceived participation in social situations. Key PRACTITIONER MESSAGE: Patients with BPD have a biased perception for exclusion. Virtual ball-tossing games can be used to induce anger in patients with BPD. Participating in a virtual ball-tossing game may reduce levels of sadness in BPD in the short term.
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(2012): Emotion and the construal of social situations. Inferences of cooperation versus competition from expressions of anger, happiness, and disappointment. In: Cognition & emotion 26 (3), S. 442-461. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.648174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.648174 Abstract: The notion that emotional expressions regulate social life by providing information is gaining popularity. Prior research on the effects of emotional expressions on observers' inferential processes has focused mostly on inferences regarding the personality traits of the expresser, such as dominance and affiliation. We extend this line of research by exploring the possibility that emotional expressions shape observers' construal of social situations. Across three vignette studies, an interaction partner's expressions of anger, compared to expressions of happiness or disappointment, led observers to construe hypothetical situations as less cooperative, both in dyads and groups. These effects occurred even when factual information regarding the cooperativeness or competitiveness of the situation was provided, attesting to the power of emotional expressions in shaping the construal of social situations. Results are discussed in relation to appraisal theory, reverse appraisals, emotions as social information theory, and the emergence of cooperation in groups and cultures. ztiert von 58
2011
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(2011): The communication of anger and disappointment helps to establish cooperation through indirect reciprocity. In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (3), S. 489-501. DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.03.016
Abstract: Abstract Indirect reciprocity is cooperation through reputation: third parties cooperate with those known to cooperate and defect against those known to defect. Defection, then, can have the unjust motive of greed or the just motive of retaliation. To establish cooperation, observers should distinguish both motives for defection and respond more cooperatively to the latter. We propose that the expression of emotions may facilitate this inferential process. Indeed, in two laboratory studies participants inferred that defection out of anger or disappointment was a just response to a defector and they responded more cooperatively than when no emotion was communicated. Moreover, participants inferred that defectors who evoked disappointment instead of anger had a relatively positive reputation. We conclude that emotions help establish cooperation through indirect reciprocity. Highlights ► Anger and disappointment signal who have defected in indirect reciprocity. ► Expressing anger or disappointment helps justify one’s defection against a defector. ► Defection out of anger or disappointment elicits relatively cooperative responses. ► Disappointment signals that a defector’s reputation is more positive than does anger. ► Anger and disappointment function as lubricants of indirect reciprocity. zitiert von 19
2009
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(2009): Angry, guilty, and conflicted: Injustice toward coworkers heightens emotional labor through cognitive and emotional mechanisms. In: Journal of Applied Psychology 94 (2), S. 429-444. DOI: 10.1037/a0013804
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013804 Abstract: This study drew on fairness theory and affective events theory to explain why individuals' emotional labor is impacted by injustice extended toward coworkers by their customers. Pairs of participants worked side by side as customer-service representatives for a simulated organization. They interacted with fair/unfair customers as well as observed face-to-face service encounters between their coworker and fair/unfair customers. Results indicated that participants' emotional labor increased both as a result of unfairness directed toward themselves as well as toward their coworkers. These effects were mediated by both discrete emotions and fairness-related counterfactual thinking and were significant even when the participants themselves had been treated fairly.
2006
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(2006): Effects of Provocation on Emotions and Aggression. An Experimental Study with Aggressive Children. In: Swiss Journal of Psychology 65 (2), S. 117-124. DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.65.2.117
Abstract: Examined the effects of an experimentally induced provocation on emotions and aggression in 34 aggressive conduct-disordered children using a competitive reaction time paradigm. Two experimental conditions were created, an increasing provocation and a low constant provocation condition. Self-rated anger was assessed directly after provocation on a 5-point visual scale. In addition, negative and positive emotions as well as physiological measures (heart rate and skin conductance level) were measured at baseline and after provocation. Results revealed that participants' aggressive behavior and subjective emotions differed as a function of the opponent's level of provocation. Concerning physiological parameters, no significant differences were found between the experimental conditions. The results suggest that affective, but not physiological variables characterize reactive aggression in conduct-disordered children. zitiert von 10
2004
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(2004): Anger, Blame, and Dimensions of Perceived Norm Violations. Culture, Gender, and Relationships. In: Journal of Applied Social Psychology 34 (8), S. 1587-1603. DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02788.x
Abstract: From a social cognitive perspective on anger, the structure of perceived norm violations and their relationships with anger were examined. 884 university students from 4 countries (United States, Germany, Japan, and Hong Kong) were asked to rate their experiences of being harmed in terms of norm violations, angry feelings, blame, and relationship with the harm doers. Two culturally common dimensions in perceived norm violations (informal interpersonal norms and formal societal norms) were found, and these dimensions substantially increased both angry feelings and blame in almost all cultural groups. The violation of interpersonal norms generally evoked anger more frequently than that of societal norms, but there were interactions between culture and relationship closeness and between gender and relationship closeness. zitiert von 58
2003
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(2003): The group engagement model: Procedural justice, social identity, and cooperative behavior. In: Personality and Social Psychology Review 7 (4), S. 349-361. DOI: 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_07 Abstract: The group engagement model expands the insights of the group-value model of procedural justice and the relational model of authority into an explanation for why procedural justice shapes cooperation in groups, organizations, and societies. It hypothesizes that procedures are important because they shape people's social identity within groups, and social identity in turn influences attitudes, values, and behaviors. The model further hypothesizes that resource judgments exercise their influence indirectly by shaping social identity. This social identity mediation hypothesis explains why people focus on procedural justice, and in particular on procedural elements related to the quality of their interpersonal treatment, because those elements carry the most social identity-relevant information. In this article, we review several key insights of the group engagement model, relate these insights to important trends in psychological research on justice, and discuss implications of the model for the future of procedural justice research.
2000
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(2000): The concept of anger. Universal or culture specific?. In: Psychopathology 33 (4), S. 159-170. DOI: 10.1159/000029139
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10867573 Abstract: I will suggest that the English word 'anger' and its counterparts in diverse languages of the world are based on concepts of anger that have a great deal of complexity. This conceptual complexity derives from several sources: (1) the metaphors and metonymies that apply to the concepts in various languages; (2) the prototypes of anger that people share in these cultures, and (3) the many different senses that the word anger and its counterparts have in different languages. We can ask: Are there any universal aspects of the concept(s) of anger? On the basis of linguistic evidence from English, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, Zulu and Wolof, I will suggest that there are, but I will also claim that some of the aspects are culture specific. This raises the further important question of why there is both universality and culture specificity in the conceptualization of this emotion. At stake is the issue of which of the following two contradictory claims is valid: (1) that anger is conceptualized in the same way universally, or (2) that anger is a social construction and thus varies considerably from culture to culture. I will propose a compromise view, which can be called 'body-based social constructionism', that enables us to see anger and its counterparts as both universal and culture specific.
1998
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Bierhoff, Hans-Werner (1998): Aggression und Gewalt. Phänomene Ursachen und Interventionen. Ärger, Aggression und Gerechtigkeit: Moralische Empörung und antisoziales Verhalten. Stuttgart [u.a.]: Kohlhammer
Abstract: Der Zusammenhang zwischen Fairness bzw. Unfairness und aggressivem Verhalten wird vorgestellt. Die in der Psychologie bekannten Fairness-Regeln werden skizziert, und es wird gezeigt, dass Verletzungen dieser Regeln drei unterscheidbare Reaktionstypen auslösen: Ärger, Selbstabwertung, zunehmende Leistungsbereitschaft. Insbesondere der Zusammenhang zwischen Ärger und aggressivem Verhalten (im Kontext von Gerechtigkeit und Verantwortung) wird unter Bezugnahme auf empirische Daten behandelt. Im weiteren wird die Theorie der relativen Deprivation beschrieben, die sich mit dem Phänomen des Ärgers aufgrund steigender Erwartungen befasst und die einen Spezialfall wahrgenommener Unfairness darstellt. Abschließend wird diskutiert, ob die Auslösung von Ärger und Aggression durch Unfairness und Verletzung normativer Erwartungen eher soziobiologisch oder eher soziokulturell erklärt werden kann.
1992
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(1992) : Arger-, Vorwurf- und verwandte Emotionen In: Mees, Ulrich: Psychologie des Ärgers: Göttingen: Hogrefe
Abstract: Explores anger, blame, and related emotions (such as self-directed anger and empathic indignation), specifying their constitutive characteristics, their variants, their typical action patterns, and their intensity variables. Included is a discussion of the relationship between anger and the assignment of responsibility or blame. Furthermore, perceived injustice is discussed as a frequent precursor of anger. Envy, jealousy, pain, disappointment, scorn, and hate are explicated as members of the family of anger emotions. An empirical study of intensity indicators for anger is reported. In conclusion, metaphors and metonymies of anger or rage are discussed. Arger-, Vorwurf- und "verwandte" Emotionen (wie Selbstarger und empathische Entrustung) werden in ihren konstitutiven Merkmalen, ihren Varianten, ihren typischen Handlungen und ihren Intensitatsvariablen spezifiziert. Daruber hinaus erfolgt eine Diskussion des Zusammenhangs zwischen einer Verantwortlichkeits- bzw. Schuldzuschreibung und Arger. Ferner wird die wahrgenommene Ungerechtigkeit als haufiger Anlass von Arger thematisiert. Als "Familie" der Arger-Emotionen werden Neid, Eifersucht, Leid, Enttauschung, Verachtung und Hass erortert. Ferner wird eine empirische Studie zu den Intensitatsindikatoren des Argers referiert. Abschliessend werden Metaphern und Metonymien des Argers bzw. der Wut erlautert.
Keywords: Anger, Disappointment, Emotions, Emotionsforschung, Guilt, Hate, Jealousy, Justice, responsibility, Verhaltensforschung -
Abstract: Die Auslösung von vier Gefühlsqualitäten (Stolz, Freude, Ärger, Trauer) in Verbindung mit dem jeweiligen Interaktionskontext und dem Geschlecht der Betroffenen wird im natürlichen Kontext untersucht. Daten wurden an einer Stichprobe von je zwei Männern und Frauen mit Hilfe der Tagebuchmethode erhoben. Frauen registrierten in ihren Tagebüchern mehr gefühlsmäßige Stellungnahmen als Männer. Sowohl bei Männeren als auch bei Frauen überwogen positive Gefühle im Vergleich zu negativen. Die Familie hatte bei der Stimmungslage eine besondere Bedeutung. Sie war der Interaktionskontext, in dem die meisten Gefühle registriert wurden. Auch alltägliche Fremdkontakte hatten einen starken Einfluss auf die Stimmungslage.
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