Why does the death of Princess Diana provoke global grief, while the demise of a homeless person barely registers on our emotional radar? For Daniel M. Gross, this unevenness is a symptom of something important missing in the standard scientific explanations of emotion
THE study of emotions has long been a vital tool for understanding what makes us human. Philosophers, psychologists of all flavours and biologists have all pitched in with theories. Many of these have been excellent, others less so. But since neurologists joined the fray a while back, we have run the risk of reducing social phenomena to…
