People who view their nation as uniquely important and demand special recognition for it may struggle to recognize emotions in others, experience more anger and contempt, and be more likely to ...

Contempt has been fairly extensively researched as an emotion. Psychologist Paul Ekman defined it as a basic emotion along with joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. He took these seven ...

Contempt may be the unofficial emotional sponsor of partisan America, a feeling of moral superiority that fuels our fantasies of ‘owning,’ ‘trolling,’ ‘dunking on,’ and 'throwing shade’ at adversaries ...