Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt

By Macalester Bell. 2013

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Philosophy

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Roger Giner-Sorolla
2. J. Becker
3. Nicole Tausch
4. Agneta H. Fischer

In Social Psychology

1. Nicole Tausch
2. J. Becker
3. Roger Giner-Sorolla
4. Agneta H. Fischer
5. Eran Halperin
6. Gerben A. van Kleef
7. C. Leach

In Philosophy

1. Roger Giner-Sorolla
2. J. Becker
3. Nicole Tausch
4. Agneta H. Fischer

Citations in the corpus

• Contempt: Derogating Others While Keeping Calm (2016, background): “Contempt’s defenders answer that the emotion’s expressive qualities constitute moral action, a protest communicated to the offending party and to others (Abramson, 2009; Bell, 2013; Mason, 2003).”
• A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers (2015, background): “While anger tends to be actionfocused, contempt is a “globalist” emotion (Bell, 2013) that is elicited when the reprehensible behaviour of another is perceived as stable and out of one’s control (i.e., it is associated with negative dispositional attributions of the offending behaviour) and thus…”