The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life as they hold the key to our understanding of social processes and soci

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Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classi

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Unique study re-evaluating the role of emotions in social interaction.