CAN EMOTIONALITY AND RATIONALITY BE RECONCILED - COMMENT

Economists invoke emotions narrowly to solve commitment problems; soci ologists view emotions as a more pervasive basic feature of social lif e. A complete approach to integrating emotionality and choice requires attention to the interactional sources of emotions and examination of the role that emotions play in directing attention to different domai ns of comparison and choice. Systematic analysis of the situational de terminants of emotional response will allow us to see how both interac tion structures and emotional responses are selected by the social env ironment.