Susan J Matt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1480735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan J Matt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Matt |
| SIGNATURE | MATT S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Weber State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7269-422X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What the history of emotions can offer to psychologists, economists, and computer scientists (among others)
Historians of the emotions explore how feelings-and the way they are categorized and conceptualized-have changed over time and across culture. This essay examines some key assumptions about emotion as an historical artifact. It also explores the promise of interdisciplinary research on the emotions. Finally, it looks at particular disciplines, including economics, computer science, and some subfields in psychology, which would be enriched by an h…
John Marsh, The Emotional Life of the Great Depression
The Politics of Happiness
With its annual World Happiness Report , Gallup has been ranking the feelings of different nations since 2012 (Figure 1). In the latest contest, Finland edged out Denmark for happiest nation on earth. The United States placed nineteenth. South Sudan came in last. The results are based on surveys with queries such as the following: “Please imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents…
En indledende undersøgelse af kapitalismens følelseshistorie
This chapter will examine an important transition in the history of emotions which illuminates how Americans came to embrace capitalistic feelings they once considered sinful. A central shift occurred when they stopped regarding their feelings as moral and cognitive traits and instead came to see them as neurological, non-volitional, physical impulses. When this occurred, once forbidden feelings became far less morally troubling. My history fits …
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid
Facebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states. But Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt show that technology doesn't just affect how we feel from moment to moment-it changes profoundly the underlying emotions themselves
Susan Lanzoni. Empathy
In Empathy: A History, Susan Lanzoni traces the history of an emotional capacity that many today regard as a timeless, fundamental quality of being human. Her excellent volume shows, however, just how and when the concept of empathy came into being. The book is an important contribution to the growing literature on the history of emotions, which seeks to historicize feelings and inner experiences and to show their contingency. Lanzoni succeeds ad…
Get Out of My Room
In Get Out of My Room, Jason Reid traces the history of the teenage bedroom, charting how and why it emerged, and what its meaning has been to generations of Americans. He uncovers the ideological, demographic, economic, and psychological trends which fostered this use of domestic space, and ably demonstrates the role the bedroom has played in American adolescents’ lives as well as in literature, music, and film. He turns first to the nineteenth …
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid
Do our digital habits kill our attention span or alter the nature of focus? Is social media driving us apart or changing the meaning of social relationships? How we answer these questions will hinge on what we value. This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to new technologies, from the telegraph to the smart phone, argues that we are profoundly changed by them. Today, for example, we are increasingly distrustful of social media, yet …
Media, Messages, and Emotions
This chapter considers links between media and emotion in a modern American context. It traces certain understandings of emotion in order to tell a story about how American media critics have wrestled with questions of the affective life. The chapter shows some thinking about emotion and media that preceded the explosion of mass media and mass media criticism in the early twentieth century, before laying out some key popular and academic understa…
Daniel Horowitz. Consuming Pleasures
In the last decades of the twentieth century, scholars began to rehabilitate popular culture, focusing attention on the power that individuals have found within it. Examining everything from comic books to clothing styles, they asserted that commercial, mass-produced goods offered opportunities for self-expression, communication, and political action. Such interpretations repudiated earlier approaches, which contended that consumer culture was al…
The English in Love
August 01 2014 The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution. By ClaireLanghamer (New York, Oxford University Press, 2013) 289 pp. $29.95 Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Susan J. Matt Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 2014 by The Massachusetts Institute o…
Doing Emotions History
How do emotions change over time? When is hate honorable? What happens when “love” is translated into different languages? Such questions are now being addressed by historians who trace how emotions have been expressed and understood in different cultures throughout history. This book explores the history of feelings such as love, joy, grief, nostalgia as well as a wide range of others, bringing together the latest and most innovative scholarship…
A Hunger for Home
You Can't Go Home Again
Journal Article You Can't Go Home Again: Homesickness and Nostalgia in U.S. History Get access Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt is professor of history and holds the Endowed Chair in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Weber State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 94, Issue 2, September 2007, Pages 469–497, https://doi.org/10.2307/25094961 Published:…
Children's Envy and the Emergence of the Modern Consumer Ethic, 1890-1930
Between 1890 and 1930 attitudes towards children's envy changed dramatically. Children growing up during this period were exposed to the temptations of consumer society and often expressed envy. Between 1890 and 1915 children were told to suppress the emotion because it was sinful and to resist the temptations of consumerism. Children must learn to be contented with what they had and accept deprivation and inequality. Beginning in the late 1910s,…
Media, Messages, and Emotions
This chapter considers links between media and emotion in a modern American context. It traces certain understandings of emotion in order to tell a story about how American media critics have wrestled with questions of the affective life. The chapter shows some thinking about emotion and media that preceded the explosion of mass media and mass media criticism in the early twentieth century, before laying out some key popular and academic understa…
You Can't Go Home Again
Journal Article You Can't Go Home Again: Homesickness and Nostalgia in U.S. History Get access Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt is professor of history and holds the Endowed Chair in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Weber State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 94, Issue 2, September 2007, Pages 469–497, https://doi.org/10.2307/25094961 Published:…
Children's Envy and the Emergence of the Modern Consumer Ethic, 1890-1930
Between 1890 and 1930 attitudes towards children's envy changed dramatically. Children growing up during this period were exposed to the temptations of consumer society and often expressed envy. Between 1890 and 1915 children were told to suppress the emotion because it was sinful and to resist the temptations of consumerism. Children must learn to be contented with what they had and accept deprivation and inequality. Beginning in the late 1910s,…
A Hunger for Home
Children's Envy and the Emergence of the Modern Consumer Ethic, 1890-1930
Between 1890 and 1930 attitudes towards children's envy changed dramatically. Children growing up during this period were exposed to the temptations of consumer society and often expressed envy. Between 1890 and 1915 children were told to suppress the emotion because it was sinful and to resist the temptations of consumerism. Children must learn to be contented with what they had and accept deprivation and inequality. Beginning in the late 1910s,…
A Hunger for Home
You Can't Go Home Again
Journal Article You Can't Go Home Again: Homesickness and Nostalgia in U.S. History Get access Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt is professor of history and holds the Endowed Chair in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Weber State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 94, Issue 2, September 2007, Pages 469–497, https://doi.org/10.2307/25094961 Published:…
Doing Emotions History
How do emotions change over time? When is hate honorable? What happens when “love” is translated into different languages? Such questions are now being addressed by historians who trace how emotions have been expressed and understood in different cultures throughout history. This book explores the history of feelings such as love, joy, grief, nostalgia as well as a wide range of others, bringing together the latest and most innovative scholarship…
Daniel Horowitz. Consuming Pleasures
In the last decades of the twentieth century, scholars began to rehabilitate popular culture, focusing attention on the power that individuals have found within it. Examining everything from comic books to clothing styles, they asserted that commercial, mass-produced goods offered opportunities for self-expression, communication, and political action. Such interpretations repudiated earlier approaches, which contended that consumer culture was al…
The English in Love
August 01 2014 The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution. By ClaireLanghamer (New York, Oxford University Press, 2013) 289 pp. $29.95 Susan J. Matt Susan J. Matt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Susan J. Matt Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 2014 by The Massachusetts Institute o…
Media, Messages, and Emotions
This chapter considers links between media and emotion in a modern American context. It traces certain understandings of emotion in order to tell a story about how American media critics have wrestled with questions of the affective life. The chapter shows some thinking about emotion and media that preceded the explosion of mass media and mass media criticism in the early twentieth century, before laying out some key popular and academic understa…
Get Out of My Room
In Get Out of My Room, Jason Reid traces the history of the teenage bedroom, charting how and why it emerged, and what its meaning has been to generations of Americans. He uncovers the ideological, demographic, economic, and psychological trends which fostered this use of domestic space, and ably demonstrates the role the bedroom has played in American adolescents’ lives as well as in literature, music, and film. He turns first to the nineteenth …
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid
Do our digital habits kill our attention span or alter the nature of focus? Is social media driving us apart or changing the meaning of social relationships? How we answer these questions will hinge on what we value. This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to new technologies, from the telegraph to the smart phone, argues that we are profoundly changed by them. Today, for example, we are increasingly distrustful of social media, yet …
The Politics of Happiness
With its annual World Happiness Report , Gallup has been ranking the feelings of different nations since 2012 (Figure 1). In the latest contest, Finland edged out Denmark for happiest nation on earth. The United States placed nineteenth. South Sudan came in last. The results are based on surveys with queries such as the following: “Please imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents…
En indledende undersøgelse af kapitalismens følelseshistorie
This chapter will examine an important transition in the history of emotions which illuminates how Americans came to embrace capitalistic feelings they once considered sinful. A central shift occurred when they stopped regarding their feelings as moral and cognitive traits and instead came to see them as neurological, non-volitional, physical impulses. When this occurred, once forbidden feelings became far less morally troubling. My history fits …
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid
Facebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states. But Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt show that technology doesn't just affect how we feel from moment to moment-it changes profoundly the underlying emotions themselves
Susan Lanzoni. Empathy
In Empathy: A History, Susan Lanzoni traces the history of an emotional capacity that many today regard as a timeless, fundamental quality of being human. Her excellent volume shows, however, just how and when the concept of empathy came into being. The book is an important contribution to the growing literature on the history of emotions, which seeks to historicize feelings and inner experiences and to show their contingency. Lanzoni succeeds ad…
What the history of emotions can offer to psychologists, economists, and computer scientists (among others)
Historians of the emotions explore how feelings-and the way they are categorized and conceptualized-have changed over time and across culture. This essay examines some key assumptions about emotion as an historical artifact. It also explores the promise of interdisciplinary research on the emotions. Finally, it looks at particular disciplines, including economics, computer science, and some subfields in psychology, which would be enriched by an h…
John Marsh, The Emotional Life of the Great Depression
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