What somebody can and may feel and show in a given situation, towards certain people or things, depends on social norms and rules. It is thus historically variable and open to change.
A central objective of the Research Center is to trace and analyse the changing norms and rules of feeling. We therefore look at different societies and see how they develop and organise their emotional regimes, codes, and lexicons.
Research concentrates on the modern period 18th to 20th centuries. Special attention is paid to institutions that have a strong impact on human behaviour and its emotional underpinnings, such as the family, law, religion, the military, the state.
Emotions are said to motivate human action and thus influence social, political, economic developments. In this capacity, they are and have been a privileged object of manipulation and instrumentalisation.
Who appealed to what kind of emotions for what reasons? These and other questions open doors to a new field of research, one which aims to thoroughly historicise a crucial element of human development.
The history of emotions is a field of historical research concerned with human emotion, especially variations among cultures and historical periods in the. The history of emotions has become an increasingly popular topic Historians of emotion trace and analyse the changing norms and.
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