Emotions can belong to groups rather than only to individuals

Evidence

From this perspective, emotions can be group-level as well as individual-level phenomena. The distinction between the group-based and individual emotion approaches is analogous to the distinction drawn by Runciman (1966) and others between “fraternal” (group-based) and individual or “egoistic” relative deprivation – the sense that one’s group in society or oneself as an individual has relatively poorer outcomes compared to other groups or individuals. From this group-based, perspective, emotion can arise because of group belonging, and thus emotions can be group-level as well as individual-level phenomena. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2261

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes group-based (fraternal) from individual (egoistic) emotion, borrowing Runciman’s relative deprivation distinction.
• DEEPTHINKING: The notion that collective identity makes feelings legitimately group-held, not merely shared individual feelings, is a subtle and under-examined idea.
• XREF: connects to: Being and Nothingness treats social groupings only as psychological constructs — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 525; Emotion overturns individuated structures only through communal resonance. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 273; Emotion gives psychopolitics efficient access below conscious reflection (+4 more)