SubsidieMeestersIrritation and Human Sociality
This project explores irritation's role in human sociality across cultures, aiming to understand its impact on cooperation and morality through ethnographic and experimental methods.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Irritation is a pervasive feature of the human experience, and of human sociality in particular, yet it has been very little studied by social and natural scientists. Research on irritation as it bears on interpersonal relationships, rather than as a physical reaction to a sensory experience, is particularly thin.
Project Overview
This project investigates irritation as a feature of human sociality in diverse cultural contexts, with a particular focus on issues related to cooperation and morality. It brings together methods and approaches from anthropology and psychology, combining in-depth ethnographic research in four culturally distinct environments with methods of systematic experimental comparison.
Aims of the Project
- Primary Aim: To develop a comprehensive account of irritation that brings together the social, cultural, and psychological dimensions of it, and of emotional life more generally.
- Secondary Aim: To bring the analysis of irritation into dialogue with the analysis of two fundamental features of human sociality: cooperation and morality.
The Role of Irritation
On the one hand, it might be felt that irritation is a threat to our close relationships; that if taken too far it will compromise the very patterns of cooperation and care on which these relationships depend.
And yet the pervasiveness of irritation, not least among very close kin, suggests something else: that in some sense we may need irritation – even that it is a constitutive feature of human sociality.
Investigative Focus
Investigating the role irritation plays in the maintenance and disintegration of cooperative relationships, and in moral judgments, will enlarge our understanding of the emotional side of human sociality.
Contribution to the Field
This pioneering work will develop a sophisticated, culturally grounded theory of irritation, capable of entering into critical dialogue with mainstream psychological and evolutionary theories of human sociality, and make broader methodological contributions to studies of intimate experience and emotional life.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.499.738 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.499.738 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-10-2022 |
| Einddatum | 30-9-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- HELSINGIN YLIOPISTOpenvoerder
Land(en)
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