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More on the Social Sharing of Emotion: In Defense of the Individual, of Culture, of Private Disclosure, and in Rebuttal of an Old Couple of Ghosts Known as "Cognition and Emotion"

Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Bernard.rime{at}uclouvain.be

Though the commentaries on my review welcomed its focus on the social dimension of emotion and emotion regulation, they also revealed important misinterpretation. The social standpoint was not developed at the expense of the individual. On the contrary, this perspective is in line with dynamic emotions systems views. Despite variations in modalities, I argue that emotion sharing is universal because it concerns culturally-shaped knowledge and constructions when they are shattered by emotional events. Predictions regarding the recovery effects of private disclosure are formulated, particularly in reference to the notions of speech styles and psychological differentiation. Finally, differentiating cognition and emotion is becoming more and more foggy and I agree that the time has come for new, less fuzzy, concepts.

Key Words: culture • disclosure • emotion • emotion regulation • social sharing • verbalization

Emotion Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 94-96 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1754073908099132


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