Approaches to blushing: context matters

This paper offers a systematic treatment of the social and cultural context of the blush. The paper looks into how different emotion theories approach blushing and does so by differentiating between basic emotion theories, which consider contextual factors but do not make them central to understandi...

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Main Author: Gen Eickers
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Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) 2022-12-01
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/perspectivafilosofica/article/view/256756
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description This paper offers a systematic treatment of the social and cultural context of the blush. The paper looks into how different emotion theories approach blushing and does so by differentiating between basic emotion theories, which consider contextual factors but do not make them central to understanding emotional expressions, and contextual emotion theories, which make contextual factors central to understanding emotional expressions. The paper argues that blushing might be best explained by theories that make context central to understanding emotional expression.
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spelling doaj-art-003e48eb5b1b48df9fab02efabb7afcf2025-08-20T02:29:24ZengUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)Perspectiva Filosófica0104-64542357-99862022-12-0149510.51359/2357-9986.2022.256756Approaches to blushing: context mattersGen Eickers0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5980-0019University of Bayreuth GermanyThis paper offers a systematic treatment of the social and cultural context of the blush. The paper looks into how different emotion theories approach blushing and does so by differentiating between basic emotion theories, which consider contextual factors but do not make them central to understanding emotional expressions, and contextual emotion theories, which make contextual factors central to understanding emotional expressions. The paper argues that blushing might be best explained by theories that make context central to understanding emotional expression. https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/perspectivafilosofica/article/view/256756blushingsocial contextemotional expressionbasic emotion theorycontextual emotion theory
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Approaches to blushing: context matters
Perspectiva Filosófica
blushing
social context
emotional expression
basic emotion theory
contextual emotion theory
title Approaches to blushing: context matters
title_full Approaches to blushing: context matters
title_fullStr Approaches to blushing: context matters
title_full_unstemmed Approaches to blushing: context matters
title_short Approaches to blushing: context matters
title_sort approaches to blushing context matters
topic blushing
social context
emotional expression
basic emotion theory
contextual emotion theory
url https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/perspectivafilosofica/article/view/256756
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