Write an essay analysing one emotion from three different theoretical perspectives. Identify the main principals of a theory and use them to imagine and speculate how different theories would approach the same phenomena.

Emotions Module

The task is to write an essay analysing one emotion from three different theoretical perspectives.

This is a theoretical essay. The propose of this essay is that you learn to identify the main principals of a theory and use them to imagine and speculate how different theories would approach the same phenomena, in this case, a specific emotion.

The three theories that you will combine in your essay will be covered on the lectures and are: The Social Construction of Emotions (Harré, 1986), Theories of Affect (Massumi, 2002; Clough, 2007; Lara 2020), and the Theories of Feelings (Cromby & Willis, 2016). You will use these theories to analyse your chosen emotion from these three different perspectives.

Your emotion options are: Happiness, Love or Hate.

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