TY - BOOK AU - Biess,Frank AU - Gross,Daniel M. TI - Science and emotions after 1945: a transatlantic perspective AV - BF531 .S38 2014eb U1 - 152.409/045 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chicago, London PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Emotions KW - Psychological aspects KW - Affective neuroscience KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Psychology KW - Germany KW - United States KW - PSYCHOLOGY KW - Physiological Psychology KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - History, 20th Century KW - Science KW - history KW - Gefühlspsychologie KW - gnd KW - Forschung KW - USA KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Humanists and the experimental study of emotion; William M. Reddy --; "Both of us disgusted in my insula" : mirror neuron theory and emotional empathy; Ruth Leys --; Emotion science and the heart of a two-cultures problem; Daniel M. Gross and Stephanie Preston --; What is an excitement?; Otniel E. Dror --; The science of pain and pleasure in the shadow of the Holocaust; Cathy Gere --; Oncomotions : experience and debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945; Bettina Hitzer --; The concept of panic : military psychiatry and emotional preparation for nuclear war in postwar West Germany; Frank Biess --; Preventing the inevitable : military psychiatry and the origins of limited tours of duty in the US Army during World War II; Rebecca Jo Plant --; Feeling for the protest faster : how the self-starving body influences social movements and global medical ethics; Nayan B. Shah --; Across different cultures' emotions in science during the early twentieth century; Uffa Jensen --; Decolonizing emotion : the management of feeling in the new world order; Jordanna Bailkin --; Passions, preferences, and animal spirits : how does homo oeconomicus cope with emotions?; Ute Frevert --; The transatlantic element in the sociology of emotions; Helena Flam --; Feminist theories and the science of emotion; Catherine Lutz --; Affect, trauma, and daily life : transatlantic legal and medical responses to bullying and intimidation; Roddey Reid --; Coda, on historiography erasures : writing history about Holocaust trauma; Carolyn J. Dean N2 - This volume seeks to provide greater historical depth to the current fascination with emotions across a wide range of academic disciplines. A central claim of the book is that the relatively recent (1990s and 2000s) neuroscientific study of emotion did not initiate - but instead consolidated - the emotional turn by clearing the ground for a range of work on the emotions, now unencumbered by the post-war stigma of irrationalism. Emotion studies in the social sciences and even in the humanities now can work around the postwar binaries of reason vs. emotion, rationality vs. irrationalism ER -