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Including pride and its group-based, relational, and contextual features in theories of contempt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

Gavin Brent Sullivan
Gavin Brent Sullivan*
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Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, IV5, Innovation Village, Cheetah Road, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 2TL, United Kingdom. gavin.sullivan@coventry.ac.uk http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/researchers/gavin-sullivan/
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Abstract

Sentiment includes emotional and enduring attitudinal features of contempt, but explaining contempt as a mixture of basic emotion system affects does not adequately address the family resemblance structure of the concept. Adding forms of individual, group-based, and widely shared arrogance and contempt is necessary to capture the complex mixed feelings of proud superiority when “looking down upon” and acting harshly towards others.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e248
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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