Table of Contents

Christian von Scheve and Mikko Salmela: Volume Introducion
Section 1: Conceptual Perspectives
1: Hans Bernhard Schmid: The Feeling of Being a Group: Corporate Emotions and Collective Conscious
2: Margaret Gilbert: How we feel: Understanding everyday collective emotion ascription
3: Jan Slaby: Emotions and the Extended Mind
4: Bennet Helm: Emotional Communities of Respect
Section 2: Collective Emotions in Face-to-Face Interactions
5: Claus Lamm and Giorgia Silani: Insights into collective emotions from the social neuroscience of empathy
6: Tobias Brosch: Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of attentional prioritization in social interactions
7: Ursula Hess, Stephanie Houde, Agneta Fischer: Do we mimic what we see or what we know?
8: Elaine Hatfield, Megan Forbes, Richard L. Rapson: Emotional Contagion as a Precursor to Collective Emotions
Section 3: The Social-Relational Dimension of Collective Emotion
9: Ilmo van der Löwe and Brian Parkinson: Relational emotions and social networks
10: Martin Bruder, Agenta Fischer, and Antony Manstead: Social appraisal as a cause of collective emotions
11: Joel Krueger: Emotions and the Social Niche
Section 4: The Social Consequences of Collective Emotions
12: Janice R. Kelly, Nicole E. Iannone, Megan K. McCarty: The Function of Shared Affect in Groups
13: Edward J. Lawler, Shane R. Thye, Jeongkoo Yoon: The Emergence of Collective Emotions in Social Exchange
14: Dario Paez, Bernard Rimé: Collective Emotional Gatherings: Their impact upon identity fusion, shared beliefs and social integration
15: Joseph de Rivera: Emotion and the Formation of Social Identities
Section 5: Group-Based and Intergroup Emotion
16: Devin G. Ray, Diane M. Mackie, Eliot R. Smith: Intergroup Emotion: Self-Categorization, Emotion, and the Regulation of Intergroup Conflict
17: Mark A. Ferguson, Nyla R. Branscombe: The Social Psychology of Collective Guilt
18: Gavin Brent Sullivan: Collective pride, happiness and celebratory emotions: Aggressive, network and cultural models
19: Eran Halperin: Collective Emotions and Emotion Regulation in Intractable Conflicts
Section 6: Rituals, Movements, and Social Organization
20: Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains and Collective Effervescence
21: J. David Knottnerus: Religion, Ritual, and Collective Emotion
22: John Protevi: Political Emotion
23: James M. Jasper: Emotions, Sociology, and Protest
24: Hubert Knoblauch, Regine Herbik: Emotional Knowledge, Emotional Styles, and Religion
Section 7: Collective Emotions in Online Social Systems
25: Mike Thelwall, Arvid Kappas: The Role of Sentiment in the Social Web
26: David Garcia, Antonios Garas, Frank Schweitzer: Modelling collective emotions in online social systems
27: Marcin Skowron, Stefan Rank: Interacting with Collective Emotions in e-Communities
28: Funda Kivran-Swaine, Mor Naaman: Gender and Social Sharing of Emotions in Large-Scale Social Awareness Streams
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About the Author

Christian von Scheve is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, where he heads the Research Area Sociology of Emotion at the Institute of Sociology. He is also affiliated to the Research Cluster "Languages of Emotion" at Freie Universität and appointed Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Vienna and a Fellow of the
Research Group "Emotions as Bio-Cultural Processes" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. He studied Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science at the University of
Hamburg, where he obtained his doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences. He works in the sociology of culture and stratification as well as in economic sociology and social psychology and focuses on the manifold intersections of culture, society, and emotion. Mikko Salmela is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a member of Finnish Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences. He worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas
at Austin in 2001-2002 and at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in 2006-2007. Salmela studied Philosophy and Political History at the University of Helsinki where he obtained his doctorate in
Social Sciences. His postdoctoral and subsequent research has focused on the philosophy of emotions from an interdisciplinarily informed perspective. In particular, he addresses questions about the nature and justification of emotions, both individual and collective about the relation of emotions, values, and identity and about the roles of collective affective phenomena in the structure and dynamics of social groups.