Citation

Nakamura M. Emot. Stud. 2015; 1(1): 63-72.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Japan Society for Research on Emotions)

DOI

10.20797/ems.1.1_63

PMID

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Abstract

While social problems such as bullying, prejudice, and intergroup conflicts are interrelated to each other as the obstacles to social coexistence, they have been studied separately in different fields of study. Moreover, important and valuable findings are not often shared among the different fields. Although recently it has been recognized that all of these problems are related to emotion and the researchers agree that understanding of emotional aspects of the social issues is essential to tackling them. By commenting on the papers for the interdisciplinary special section, this paper claims that more attention to emotion is needed as a common ground of the various domains of research in order to deepen our understanding of the background of the issues and to provide more appropriate remedies for them. This nature of emotion as a common ground suggests that emotional phenomena would be more accurately grasped through the interdisciplinary and cross-cutting approach by contextualizing the related factors concerning emotion.

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