Emotions in Everyday Life

Emotions in Everyday Life.

Despite decades of research establishing the causes and consequences of emotions in the laboratory, we know surprisingly little about emotions in everyday life. We developed a smartphone application that monitored real-time emotions of an exceptionally large (N = 11,000+) and heterogeneous participants sample. People's everyday life seems profoundly emotional: participants experienced at least ...

Living in denial: climate change, emotions, and everyday life.

292 C limate change is occurring with devastating impacts on human society, yet a major portion of the global population responds to this catastrophe with apathy. In the book Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life, Kari Marie Norgaard explores the puzzling disconnect between people’s daily activities and climate change from social, cultural, psychological, and emotional p...

Beneito-Montagut, Roser (in-press). Encounters on the social web: Everyday life and Emotions Online. Sociological Perspectives ENCOUNTERS ON THE SOCIAL WEB: EVERYDAY LIFE AND EMOTIONS

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Aesthetics of everyday life is one of the branches of aesthetic knowledge. Until the 20th century, classical aesthetics focused on the subject of visual arts and paid less attention to the formation of fine arts in the context of human and nature’s daily life experience. During the last few decades, a movement emerged that, by avoiding that one-sided art-oriented approach, tried to create a clo...

Morality in everyday life.

The science of morality has drawn heavily on well-controlled but artificial laboratory settings. To study everyday morality, we repeatedly assessed moral or immoral acts and experiences in a large (N = 1252) sample using ecological momentary assessment. Moral experiences were surprisingly frequent and manifold. Liberals and conservatives emphasized somewhat different moral dimensions. Religious...