Affective Neuroscience and the Causes of the Mutiny of the French 82nd Infantry Brigade. (2nd October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: ZIENTEK, ADAM DEREK; HÄBERLEN, JOACHIM C.; SPINNEY, RUSSELL A.
• Is Part Of: Contemporary European history. Volume 23:Number 4(2014:Nov.)
• Page Start: 505
• Page End: 522
• Publication Date: 2014-10-02
• Subjects: Europe -- History -- 1945- -- Periodicals; 940.5
• DOI: 10.1017/S0960777314000290
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0960-7773

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>This article seeks to demonstrate how some elements of affective neuroscience and basic emotions theory can be used to inform historical reasoning. It begins with an overview of contemporary basic emotions theory. It then provides a case study of the mutiny of the French 82nd Infantry Brigade, which took place on 1–2 June 1917, interpreting the events of the mutiny in the light of some tenets of basic emotions theory. It focuses specifically on how alcohol consumption among mutineers affected their experience of the basic emotions of fear and anger. Finally, it addresses some empirical and theoretical shortcomings of the approach and concludes tentatively that some elements of affective neuroscience and basic emotions theory can be useful to historians.</p> </abstract>