Beat them or ban them: the characteristics and social functions of anger and contempt.

By Agneta H. Fischer, Ira J. Roseman. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Contempt: Derogating Others While Keeping Calm (2016, background): “But contempt also involves the appraisal that the other is inferior, maybe not even worth one’s energy or attention, because he or she has a bad character (Fischer & Roseman, 2007).”
Where Have All the People Gone? A Plea for Including Social Interaction in Emotion Research (2010, background): “Indeed, some studies have shown that initial negative emotions increase during further interactions, even leading to a more permanent negative emotional attitude (Anderson, Keltner, & John, 2003; Fischer & Roseman, 2007).”
The Central Role of Group-Based Hatred as an Emotional Antecedent of Political Intolerance: Evidence from Israel (2009, background): “…members are angry with outgroup members because of their perceived misdeeds, they are willing to retaliate, whether by denying civil rights (Berkowitz, 1993) or by first seeking a way to change or educate the source of anger and as a last resort turning to aggression (Fischer & Roseman, 2007).”
The Social Costs and Benefits of Anger as a Function of Gender and Relationship Context (2011, background): “Such emotion goals have been referred to as ‘emotivational goals’; the goal that is specific for anger is coercion (Fischer and Roseman 2007).”
The role of moral emotions and individual differences in consumer responses to corporate green and non-green actions (2015, background): “114; Frijda et al. 1989). Deliberative reactions draw upon explicit appraisals of the situation and outcomes we find ourselves in when we feel emotional. Moreover, Haidt (2012) claims that moral emotions reflect automatic-like moral judgments to perceptions of moral transgressions.”
Anger and Prosocial Behavior (2014, background): “Fischer and Roseman (2007) also argued that the expression of anger can be used to instigate changes in others’ behavior.”
Moral Anger Is More Flexible Than Moral Disgust (2011, background): “Fischer and Roseman (2007) found that contempt, an emotion similar to disgust, is different from anger in that it implies disapproval of the person’s character of disposition rather than action.”
My Anger Is Your Gain, My Contempt Your Loss: Explaining Consumer Responses to Corporate Wrongdoing (2013, background): “The experience of contempt leads to various actiontendencies distinguished by urges to move away from or exclude the offender from one’s relationship (e.g., Fischer & Roseman, 2007).”
Emotion is for influence (2011, neutral): “…research outside the domain of emotion-based social influence (e.g., Bodenhausen, Sheppard, & Kramer, 1994; DeSteno, Petty, Wegener, & Rucker, 2000; Fischer & Roseman, 2007; Keltner, Ellsworth, & Edwards, 1993; Lerner & Keltner, 2001; Tiedens & Linton, 2001), our theory and review suggest that…”
Appraisal in the Emotion System: Coherence in Strategies for Coping (2013, background): “Contempt moves others away from the self in social space, seeking rejection of its targets by in-group members (e.g., through disparaging; Fischer & Roseman, 2007).”
Current Emotion Research in Social Psychology: Thinking About Emotions and Other People (2015, background): “…of the appraisals of social relations that permit us to distinguish pairs of related social emotions from one another (e.g., disgust and anger, Giner-Sorolla, 2012; envy and jealousy, Parrott & Smith, 1993; anger and contempt, Fischer & Roseman, 2007; shame and guilt, Tangney & Dearing, 2002).”
The Space Between Us: A Social-Functional Emotions View of Ambivalent and Indifferent Workplace Relationships (2017, background): “For example, an individual’s expression of contempt in an interaction is a signal of disapproval, condescension, and exclusion (Fischer & Roseman, 2007; Izard, 1997); this expression leads the interacting partner to infer he or she should avoid, or disengage from, the relationship (Melwani &…”
A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers (2015, background): “This argument follows from work on the functional differences between anger and contempt (Averill, 1983; Fischer & Roseman, 2007; Weber, 2004).”