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Every day humans experience a wide range of emotions—the joy of the sunrise, the disappointment of a nonexistent closed-form expression, the consolation of a beautiful theorem, the thrill of tasty food, the pleasure of a deep friendship, the unbearable sadness of another’s lost love (weeping for Dido, as the young Augustine), the peace of a day well worked.
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Jasso, G. (2006). Emotion in Justice Processes. In: Stets, J.E., Turner, J.H. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30715-2_15
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