ebook THE GUILFORD PRESS THE POSITIVE SIDE OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS The Positive Side of Negative Emotions Edited by W. Gerrod Parrott The Guilford Press New York London © 2014 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The positive side of negative emotions / edited by W. Gerrod Parrott. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4625-1333-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Emotions. I. Parrott, W. Gerrod. BF531.P67 2014 152.4—dc23 2013041394 About the Editor W. Gerrod Parrott, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown Uni- versity. His central interest is the nature of human emotion. His published work has focused on three areas: philosophical and historical approaches to the concept of emotion; emotion’s social foundations and functions, including such social emotions as embarrassment, shame, guilt, envy, and jealousy; and the influence of emotion and emotional self-regulation on thought. Dr. Parrott is the author of over 75 scholarly chapters, articles, and books. He is past editor of the journal Cognition and Emotion and past president of the International Society for Research on Emotion. v Contributors Levi R. Baker, MS, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Anne Bartsch, PhD, Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany Yochanan Bigman, BA, doctoral student, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton, PhD, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Philip J. Corr, PhD, Department of Psychology, City University London, London, United Kingdom Stéphane Côté, PhD, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Joseph P. Forgas, AM, DPhil, DSc, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Christine R. Harris, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California Tilo Hartmann, PhD, Department of Communication Science, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nicole E. Henniger, MA, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California vii viii Contributors Ursula Hess, PhD, Institute for Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Berlin, Germany James K. McNulty, PhD, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Julie K. Norem, PhD, Department of Psychology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Mary Beth Oliver, PhD, Department of Film/Video and Media Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Nickola C. Overall, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand W. Gerrod Parrott, PhD, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Adam M. Perkins, PhD, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom Andrew G. Ryder, PhD, Department of Psychology and Centre for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University, and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit and the Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Nicole Senft, BA, doctoral student, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Louise Sundararajan, PhD, private practice, Rochester, New York Maya Tamir, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Gerben A. Van Kleef, PhD, Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands