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This chapter describes how Rom Harré’s intellectual journey led him to play a role in changing how psychologists understand and study emotion. The edited volume he published in 1986, The Social Construction of Emotions, presented a compelling alternative to the predominant 1980s psychological conception of emotion as primitive and pan-cultural. Harré’s ethogenic approach, combined with his wide-ranging knowledge of current research across a spectrum of disciplines, allowed him to challenge that conception with a social constructionist alternative. After Harré’s move to Georgetown University in the late 1980’s, he continued working on emotion with me, and this chapter concludes by describing our collaboration and friendship.
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Parrott, W.G. (2019). The Social Construction of Emotions. In: Christensen, B. (eds) The Second Cognitive Revolution. Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26680-6_14
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