How Emotions Work

"Jack Katz develops new methods for examining the sources and workings of our emotional life with unprecedented directness and clarity.". "Katz fills the book with real-life emotions - crying under the pressure of police interrogation, road rage on California freeways, laughter in a funhouse, eight-year-olds shame facedly striking out at baseball games - where the rise and fall of emotions can be observed without the artificial influence of the research process. By using videotapes, interviews, ethnographic description, participant observation, and the insights of novelists, Katz studies…