Rational Anger

By comparing the workings and displays of anger found in different legal systems and emotional cultures, the book elucidates assumptions about law, morality, truth, and emotions that we commonly take for granted.

Stina Bergman Blix is Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University. She studies emotions in professional work, rationality, law, theatre, and qualitative methods. She is principal investigator of an international comparative project (JUSTEMOTIONS) funded by the European Research Council investigating the emotive-cognitive process of judicial decision-making. Her work has been published in journals such as Symbolic Interaction, Emotion Review, and Qualitative Research and she co-authored Professional Emotions in Court: A Sociological Perspective (Routledge, 2018).
Nina Törnqvist has a PhD in Criminology from Stockholm University and is a researcher at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University. Her main research interests include legal professionals, emotions, victimology, narratives, and qualitative methods. After working in the JUSTEMOTIONS project, she is currently engaged in research projects on The emotional dynamic of police and crime victim interactions in IPV investigations and on Justice and accountability for business involvement in international crimes.