Social functions of emotions.

By Dacher Keltner, Jonathan Haidt. 2001

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A Reciprocal Influence Model of Social Power: Emerging Principles and Lines of Inquiry (2008, background): “The most basic assumption emerging from these analyses is that humans are an ultrasocial species, accomplishing most tasks relevant to survival and reproduction, from the provision of resources to the raising of offspring, in highly coordinated, close proximity, face-to-face relationships and groups”
Relating emotional abilities to social functioning: a comparison of self-report and performance measures of emotional intelligence. (2006, background): “Study 2 Emotional abilities help individuals to form and maintain functional interpersonal relationships (Keltner & Haidt, 2001).”
Sensitivity to genuine versus posed emotion specified in facial displays (2010, background): “It allows for smooth communication and enhances the quality of social relationships (Keltner & Haidt, 2001 ), which is an important aspect of quality of life (Seeman, Lusignolo, Albert, & Berkman, 2001 ).”
Why does fear override hope in societies engulfed by intractable conflict, as it does in the Israeli society? (2001, background): “They first provide the beliefs that evoke the particular emotion(s); they then supply the criteria and sensitivity for the selection of information, which in turn evokes emotion; they affect the interpretation and evaluation of situations in terms of particular emotions, signal what emotions are app”
Love, desire, and the suppression of thoughts of romantic alternatives ☆ (2008, unknown): “There have been proposals that emotions like love are distinct and relatively independent modules that have evolved to address longstanding evolutionary challenges (Kenrick, 2006; also see Keltner & Haidt, 2001, for a related view).”
Moderators of the Emotion Inhibition-Health Relationship: A Review and Research Agenda (2002, background): “More important, there is no particular reason to assume that these different components serve the same functions (Averill, 1994; Keltner & Gross, 1999; Keltner & Haidt, 2001).”
Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion (2006, background): “And there appears broad acknowledgment that epigenetic influences (such as context and learning history) play a role in emotional responding (e.g., Ekman, 1992; Keltner & Haidt, 2001; Panksepp, 1998).”
Emotional Intelligence and Social Interaction (2004, background): “…social competence; social relationships Emotional competencies are thought to be important for social interaction because emotions serve communicative and social functions, conveying information about people’s thoughts and intentions and coordinating social encounters (e.g., Keltner & Haidt, 2001).”
Affect Detection: An Interdisciplinary Review of Models, Methods, and Their Applications (2010, background): “Instead, it is highly situation-dependent [19], [122], [205], [206] and context is critical because it helps to disambiguate between various exemplars of an emotion category [19].”
Walking in each other's Shoes: Perspective Taking Mediates Effects of Emotional Intelligence on Relationship Quality (2011, background): “Emotions play an important role in the coordination of social interactions and relationships (Keltner & Haidt, 2001) and serve important communicative functions (Elfenbein, Foo, White, Tan, & Aik, 2007) by providing information about thoughts and intentions and the probable behaviour of interaction…”
A survey of socially interactive robots (2003, background): “Emotions are complex phenomena and often tightly coupled to social context [5].”
The Evolutionary Significance of Affect in Groups: Communication and Group Bonding (2004, background): “Finally, emotions are thought to be informative, both to the person experiencing the emotion and to external observers (Clore, 1994; Ekman, 1993; Keltner & Haidt, 2001).”
Developing emotion abilities and regulation strategies in a sport organization: An action research intervention (2013, background): “There is a growing body of research linking emotions (e.g., Keltner & Haidt, 2001) and emotion-related abilities (e.g., Brackett, Rivers, Shiffman, Learner, & Salovey, 2006) with a range of psychosocial outcomes, including functioning in social interaction (e.g., Lopes et al., 2004) and small work…”
Regulating anger and sadness: an exploration of discrete emotions in emotion regulation (2007, background): “In social interaction, verbal and nonverbal emotional responses convey information about one’s thoughts, intentions, and behavior (Buck, 1984; Ekman, 1973; Keltner and Haidt, 2001).”
Emotional intelligence and relationship quality among couples (2005, background): “…Emotional Intelligence was formally introduced to psychology in 1990 through two articles; the first provided an initial definition and theory of EI (Salovey & Mayer, 1990), and the second presented a demonstration of how EI could be tested as a mental ability (Mayer, DiPaolo, & Salovey, 1990).”
Are Emotions Natural Kinds? (2006, unknown): “…basic emotions include a broad acknowl-edgment that epigenetic inﬂuences (such as context and learning history) may play a role in emotional responding (e.g., Ekman, 1992; Keltner & Haidt, 2001; Panksepp, 1998), and that the face, voice, and body are not tightly linked in a highly invariant manner.”