What is it about?
We argue that hate is different from other negative emotions, such as anger, or disgust or sadness. We show that hate is based on the idea that another person or another group has very negative characteristics, such as being immoral or evil. So hate is not based on mere negative behaviours, but because these behaviours are caused by the fact that someone has an evil character. Hate especially occurs between groups and is very hard to suppress or dissolve, because the reason for one's hate is always confirmed by stereotypical views of an other group. This also explains why hate spreads so fast, especially through social media.
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Why is it important?
Hate is an emotion that increasingly occurs in our societies and we have to analyse it in order to be able to examine what are the best ways to contain it.
Perspectives
The is the first review that combines theoretical and empirical approaches on this emotion from many different disciplines (psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication science and media studies).
Agneta Fischer
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Why We Hate, Emotion Review, August 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1754073917751229.
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