“Emotions in Cultural Dynamics”: What Non-Humans Can Teach Us about the Role of Emotions in Cultural Evolution

Guillaume Dezecache (1) , Christine Sievers (2) , Thibaud Gruber (3)

1 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
2 UNIBE - Universität Bern / University of Bern
3 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva

The role emotions play in the dynamics of cultural phenomena has long been neglected. The collection of articles recently published in Emotion Review provides an important first step into this necessary endeavor. In this commentary, we discuss this contribution by emphasizing the role epistemological parsimony should play in the future of this research agenda. The cultural behavior and emotions of chimpanzees is taken as reference.

Domaines: Psychologie

Guillaume Dezecache, Christine Sievers, Thibaud Gruber. “Emotions in Cultural Dynamics”: What Non-Humans Can Teach Us about the Role of Emotions in Cultural Evolution. Emotion Review, 2022, 14 (2), pp.161-163. ⟨10.1177/17540739221082217⟩. ⟨hal-03875821⟩