The Social Life of Emotions (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Emotions cannot be understood independently of the social relationships and groups where they occur since the social world is defined by emotion and emotions are defined by the social world. This book examines the interplay of emotions and social relationships by analyzing the ways in which relationships generate emotions, the role of relationships and social life in constraining people's emotions, and how emotions constitute social relationships.

Larissa Z. Tiedens is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She earned her BA in Psychology at Carleton College and her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused on emotions in social contexts, cognitive consequences of emotions, and processes involved in stratification.

Colin Wayne Leach is Associate Professor in the social psychology program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his academic training at Boston University, University of Michigan, and University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Immigrant Life in the US: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (with Donna R. Gabaccia, 2013).