Social representations and emotions: A psychosocial analysis of the social construction of knowledge
Résumé
The presentation examines the relationship between social representations (SRs) and reality, as mediated by emotional experience. Given the inherently uncertain and unstable nature of reality, a signaling system is needed to reflect this variability. The central assumption is that emotions provide, at an individual level, a signaling function of the relevance of SRs in the social integration of reality. At the core of this signal function, the role of tension (de-Graft Aikins, 2012) lies at the heart of the process. With the emotion-driven tension, we approach SRs as cognitive-emotional processes (Marková and Wilkie, 1987) of construction, maintenance, and transformation of social knowledge. We, therefore, situate the study of the relationships between SRs and emotions within a conceptual framework that addresses the dynamics of stability and change.
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