Table of Contents

Section 1: Emotion Concepts and What Language Reveals About Them.- Introduction: Language and emotion concepts.- Everyday conceptions of emotion: A semantic perspective.- Metaphor and the folk understanding of anger.- The heart and the head: Everyday conceptions of being emotional.- Prototype analyses of emotion terms in Palau, Micronesia.- Turkish emotion concepts: A prototype analysis.- Emotions and emotion words.- Everyday concepts of emotions following every-other-day errors in joint plans.- Section 2: Anthropological Studies of Emotion Concepts.- Introduction: Ethnotheories of Emotion.- American cultural models of embarrassment: The not-so egocentric self laid bare.- The study of Inuit emotions: Lessons from a personal retrospective.- The politics of emotion in Nukulaelae gossip.- “Caught in the web of words:” Performing theory in a Fiji Indian community.- A sociolinguistic apporach to emotion concepts in a Senegalese community.- Everyday conceptions of distress: A case study from Toraja, Indonesia.- Section 3: The Developing Child’s Theory of Emotion.- Introduction: The Child’s Concept of Emotion.- Young Children’s Conception of Mind and Emotion: Evidence from English Speakers.- Children’s Understanding of Emotion.- The Development of Children’s Understanding of Negative Reflexive Social Emotions.- Developmental Constraints of Emotion Categories.- Children’s Understanding of the Strategic Control of Negative Emotions.- Intersubjective Emotions and the Theory of Mind Research: A Cultural Critique.- Section 4: Social Influences on Conceptions of Emotion.- Introduction: Social Psychological Perspectives on Laypersons’ Theories of Emotion.- Culture Differences in Emotional Knowledge: A Study in Mexico, Chile, Belgium and the Basque Country (Spain).-Naive Theories of Emotional Experience: Jealousy.- Emotion Concepts as a Function of Gender.- The Social Sharing of Emotion as a Source for the Social Knowledge of Emotion.- Knowing and Labeling Emotions: The Role of Social Sharing.- Expression of Emotion Versus Expressions of Emotions: Everyday Conceptions about Spontaneous Facial Behavior.- The Collective Construction of Self Esteem: Implications for Culture, Self, and Emotion.- Section 5: Concluding Comments.- Final Session.- The Appeal and Pitfalls of Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues.- Afterword.