The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human FeelingIn private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion

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Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family

In addresses written for a wide general audience

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And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work

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telling its stories drink by drink

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Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity

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