The "history of emotions" and the future of emotion research

Emotion Review

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-273

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Charles Darwin; cultural semantics; ethnocentrism; happiness; history of emotions; natural semantic metalanguage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954752074     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073910361983     Document Type: Review

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