Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one is worse off compared to some standard
accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment. Social scientists use RD to predict a …

We send money to help famine victims halfway around the world. We campaign to save
whales and oceans. We stay up all night to comfort a friend with a broken relationship …

In a classic theory, Durkheim (1912) predicted that because of the social sharing of emotion
they generate, collective gatherings bring participants to a stage of collective effervescence …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

A growing body of literature documents the important role played by moral outrage or moral
anger in stakeholders' reactions to cases of corporate social irresponsibility. Existing …

The two studies reported here demonstrated that a combination of anger and disgust
predicts moral outrage. In Study 1, anger toward moral transgressions (sexual assault …

Anger is a common problem for which counselling and psychotherapy clients seek help, and
is typically regarded as an invidious negative emotion to be ameliorated. However, in some …

The self-system consists of three fundamental components: the individual self, the relational
self, and the collective self. All selves are important and meaningful and all are associated …

The aim of this article is to conceptually delineate moral anger from other related constructs.
Drawing upon social functional accounts of anger, we contend that distilling the finer …

What role do emotions play in moral cognition? Leading accounts argue that a multiplicity of
emotions, including guilt, outrage, shame, empathy, and even disgust, play an essential role …