Problems of Historical Causation in Emotions Research

Samenvatting

After exploring how basic emotional norms change, and subsequently bring about changes in emotional experience and social reactions, the problem of causation is considered via analysis of three cases: the seventeenth-/eighteenth-century civilizing process; the Victorian emotional style; and the mid-twentieth century. No single factor seems adequate to explain either the range of emotional standards or the underlying style. Multifactorial causation and a mixture of both structural and cultural ingredients do not result in any tidy model of explaining emotional change, but in a set of guidelines or leading questions by which to approach the analytic task. 28 References. Adapted from the source document.