Social psychology, emotion and interdisciplinarity -- Chapter Summaries -- 1. Two Ancient Theories of Emotion: Plato and Aristotle -- Key aims -- Introduction -- Plato -- A dualistic split -- A tripartite division -- An emerging blurred division -- Plato's psychosocial studies of emotion -- Higher emotion -- Aristotle -- The powers of De Anima -- Passive passions -- Emotion and virtue -- Aristotle's psychosocial studies of emotion -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 2. Hellenistic and Medieval Theologies of Emotion -- Key aims -- Introduction -- The Hellenistic period -- Early Stoa -- Middle Stoa -- Late Stoa -- Epicureanism -- Augustine -- Passion, affection and the will -- The golden age of Islam -- Poetic evocations -- Aquinas -- The passions of the soul -- The virtues -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3. Enlightenment Philosophies of Emotion -- Key aims -- Introduction -- Descartes' little gland -- The bio-social factors-- Spinoza and affectus -- Conatus -- A dual-aspect monism -- Affective change -- Hume and moral sentimentalism -- Hobbes and fear -- Post-scepticism -- Hume's psychology -- The association of ideas -- Reason enslaved to passion -- Sympathy and the psychosocial -- Kant's synthetic a priori -- The rational being -- Sympathy's infection -- Affects and passions -- Social passions -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 4. The Role of Emotion In The Development of Social Psychology As A Discipline -- Key aims -- Introduction -- The `peculiar vividness of feeling' -- Evolutionary psychology -- William James' emotional `mind stuff' -- Walter Cannon's emotional thalamus -- The classification of emotion -- William McDougall's introduction to social psychology -- Pseudo-instincts -- Lewin -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 5. Group Psychology and Emotion -- Key aims -- Introduction -- Freud's drive theory -- Affect and idea -- Freud's group psychology -- Libidinal ties-- The pathologisation of the crowd -- Deindividuation -- Social norm theory -- Social identity theory -- Primitive emotional contagion -- Primitive emotion -- Asocial theory -- Virality and contagion -- Tarde -- Somnambulism -- Post-Freudian groups -- Bion's basic assumptions -- Foulkes' psychosocial theorisation -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 6. Biological Understandings of Emotion -- Key aims -- Introduction -- Darwin's expressions -- The universality thesis -- Natural selection, habits and instincts -- Darwin's determinism -- Neo-Darwinism -- The triune brain -- LeDoux's amygdale -- Triune critiques -- Hemispheric distinctions -- Split brain -- Cultural factors -- Affective neuroscience -- Empathic mirroring -- Neuropsychoanalysis -- Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 7. Sociological Understandings of Emotion -- Key aims -- Introduction -- A two factor model -- The dramaturgical theory of emotion -- Face-work -- Feeling rules-- Emotion work -- The constructions of gendered emotion -- Gendered assumptions -- The subordination hypothesis -- Sexual desire and emotional connectedness -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 8. Emotion Talk: Theories and Analysis -- Key aims -- Introduction -- Emotional disclosure -- Inhibition confrontation -- Cognitive reappraisal -- The multiple code theory -- Referential activity -- Content analysis of emotion -- Discourse analysis of emotion -- Combining methods -- Incongruent rationalisation -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 9. Affect Theory: Post-Structuralist Accounts -- Key aims -- Introduction -- Affect theory -- Affect in Tomkins -- Affect in Deleuze -- Actual selection -- Affect in Massumi -- Affect and subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 10. Digital Emotion -- Key aims -- Introduction -- Simondon's technics -- Affective collective baggage -- Techno-biological emotion -- Further reading.