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Emotions permeate life. We feel them, we express them, we conceal them, we attribute them to others, they drive us to wars, and they drive us to make and to break alliances on grand scales and on intimate scales. Long ago, Gregory Bateson claimed that emotion was so central to social life that no study of cultural behavior could be adequate unless it took into account the emotional factor.
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© 2011 Karl G. Heider
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Heider, K.G. (2011). Preface. In: The Cultural Context of Emotion. Culture, Mind, and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230337596_1
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