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The Moral Psychology of Contempt (Hardcover)
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The Moral Psychology of Contempt (Hardcover)
Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotions
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The eye roll, the smirk, the unilateral lip curl. These,
psychologists tell us, are typical expressions of contempt. Across
cultures, such expressions manifest an emotional response to norm
violations, among them moral norms. As such, contempt is of
tremendous personal and social significance - whether in the
context of a marriage on the rocks or a country in the grips of
racial unrest. Scholarship on contempt, however, lags far behind
that of other emotional responses to norm violations, such as
anger, disgust, and shame. Introducing original work by
philosophers and psychologists, this volume addresses empirical
questions concerning contempt's emotional, cognitive, and
behavioural signature. It invites the general reader to reflect on
whether contempt is something to be embraced and cultivated as an
emotional safeguard of valued norms or, rather, an emotion from
which we have good reason - perhaps overriding moral reason - to
distance ourselves so far as is psychologically possible. Advancing
the nascent literature on contempt while setting future research
agenda, the volume is a resource for advanced students and scholars
of both empirical and normative moral psychology.
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