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"Using Charles Darwin's survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Wilson's A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions - fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and happiness - and how these emotions have influenced both cultural and social history. We learn that primitive fear served as the engine of religious belief, while a desire for happiness led to humankind's first musings on achieving a perfect utopia. Challenging the notion that human emotion has remained constant, A Natural History of Human Emotions explains why in the last 250 years, society has changed its unwritten rules for what can be expressed in public and in private. Our private lives have benefited from greater emotional honesty, while some emotions, such as anger, now seem to dominate public discourse."--BOOK JACKET
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A Natural History of Human Emotions
September 12, 2006, Grove Press
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A Natural History of Human Emotions
September 13, 2005, Grove Press
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0802118046 9780802118042
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A natural history of human emotions
2004, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
- 1st Grove Press ed.
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