Expressive Order: Confirming Sentiments in Social Actions

Preface. - Part I Affect Control Theory, Plainly Told. - Introduction . - Affect control theory. - Utility of the Theory . - Overview of the Book. - Further Readings. - Sentiments. - Evaluation, Potency, and Activity (EPA). -Measuring EPA . - Universality of EPA. - Further Readings. - Culture. - Consensus. - Individuality Versus Norms. - Measurement Implications. - Cultural Stability. - Instability or Unreliability? - Variations Across Cultures. - Further Readings . - Sub-Cultures. - Gender. - A Pseudo-Sub-Culture. - Gendered Traits. - Gay Christians . - Deviance Sub-Cultures. - Non-Normalized Deviants . - Occupations. - Further Readings. - Defining Situations. - Identities. - Institutions. - Cues to Institutions. - Selves. - Multiple Identities. - Identity Modifiers. - Further Readings. - Interpreting Actions. - Action Frames. - Institutional Coherence. - Affective Processing . - Impression Formation. - Stability. - Behavior Effects. - Diminishment. - Consistencies. - Congruencies. - Balance. - States of Being . - Cross-Cultural Variations. - Versus Sentiments-Deflection. - Identifying Behaviors . - Further Readings . - Building Actions. -Selecting a Behavior. - Social Interaction. - Groups . - Avoiding Diminishment . - Social Roles . - Medicine. - Law . - Work Roles . - Macroactions . - Informal Roles. - Deviance. - Interactions With Deviants. - Interactions Among Deviants. - Further Readings . - Emotions . - Emotions as Signals. - Impressions and Emotions . - Characteristic and Structural Emotions . - Solidarity . - Emotions and Motivation . - Stress . - Self-Sentiments and Stress . - Emotions and Stress . - Emotions of Deviants. - Further Readings. - Changing Sentiments. - Re-identification . - Identity Filtering. - Labeling Deviants . - Attribution . - Inferences From Emotionality. - Identity Fluctuation. - Sentiment Change. - New Sentiments . - Enculturation. - Turning Points. - Further Readings. - Selves. - Salient Identities. - Commitment and Alienation. - Deviance Forays . - Deviants . - Self-Repugnance . - Patterns of Deviance . - Self-Fluctuation. - Cultural Shifts in Self . - Further Readings. - Part II Mathematics of Affect Control Theory . - Event Likelihood. - Optimal Behavior. - Incorporating Settings. - Self-Directed Action . - Optimal Identity. - Re-identifying Actors. - Re-identifying Object Persons . - Modifiers . - Emotions. - Characteristic Emotion. - Attributes. - Emotions and Re-identification . - Inferences From Mood. - Elaborations. - Self and Identities. - Minimizing Inauthenticity. - Illustrative Analyses. - Optimal Behavior. - Optimal Re-identifications. - Emotions and Re-identification. - Programming the Model. - Organization of Analyses. - Emotionality Constraints . - Impression-Formation Equations. - Selection . - Algorithms. - Part III Researching Affect Control Theory. - Growth of Affect Control Theory. - Chronology . - Branches. - Measurement of Affective Dimensions. - Impression Formation. - Theory and Mathematics. - Self. - Computer Programming. - Experiments. - Emotions. - Sub-Cultures, Gender, Ideology. - Life Course. - Social Structure, Social Change. - Politics . - Deviance . - Language and Arts. - Business . - Simulations. - Conducting Simulations. - Define Interactants Form. - Define Situation Form. - Define Events Form. - Analyze Events Form. - View Report Form . - Other Capabilities . - Errors. - Different Versions of Interact . - Further Readings . - Basic Concepts in Affect Control Theory. - References . - Index