Professional Emotion Management as a Rehearsal Process

Blix, Stina Bergman

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“…Merging the emotive and cognitive thus emphasizes that the habituation of a frame's social constraints is a simultaneous process of learning to feel and learning to think in particular ways. Habituation 53 is the embodiment of emotional expressions, achieved through socialization, training, repetition over time. Frames become habituated and settled to the extent that people begin to take a frame-a certain way of understanding and responding to a situation-for granted 54 ; their emotion management and adjustment to situated emotion norms becomes backgrounded.…”

Section: A Theoretical Toolkit For the Analysis Of Emotions In Courtmentioning

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Comparing culturally embedded frames of judicial dispassion

Wettergren¹,

Blix²

2021

Research Handbook on Law and Emotion

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If you had been a competent prosecutor, which you are not, you would have hedged against the possibility that maybe the judge would disagree with you . . . on the law. . . . If these drug dealers are walking free, it is because you did not hedge against that possibility. Don't lay it at my doorstep. . . . [I]f they are walking out of here it is because you people were not competent enough to put in an extra charge in your indictment. 2The prosecutor proceeds with the interrogation of the accused in a happy-go-lucky tone of voice. The accused is mocking her but she pretends not to notice and continues to ask questions that are leading and provocative, making the accused all worked up and defensive. The judge is not taking any notes and sits looking from the accused to the prosecutor and back again. The prosecutor asks a series of questions to which the accused simply answers no: "Did you see anybody hit him as he stood up? Did you see anybody hit him when he sat down?" The judge turns abruptly to look at the prosecutor, then puts her hand on her mouth and keeps looking at the prosecutor. (Author's Observation, drug offense, Monika, Judge, 45+) 1 This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme awarded to Bergman Blix (grant agreement No 757625). Both authors have contributed equally to this work. 2 U.S. District Court Judge John Sprizzo in 1989 scolding prosecutors for having handled a drug case badly,

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Section: A Theoretical Toolkit For the Analysis Of Emotions In Courtmentioning

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Comparing culturally embedded frames of judicial dispassion

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Blix²

2021

Research Handbook on Law and Emotion

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“…Health professionalism involves embodiment in several ways: an embodied identity that becomes part of a person's identity (Monrouxe & Rees, 2017), an embodied practice (Hirvonen, 2014;Mol, 2008) where certain skills are embodied (cf. Bergman Blix, 2015), and a gendered practice (Hirvonen, 2014;Twigg, 2006). All of these aspects concern the embodying of health professionalism.…”

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Vol 9 No 2 (2019)

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This paper outlines a neo-Weberian approach to state-sponsored social closure in professional formation. Despite its advantages, state decision-making is not typically well-defined or examined in neo-Weberian analyses. Neo-Weberianism is differentiated from Max Weber's own work on social action and rationality, which generally provides a more subtle interpretation of state socio-political processes. The paper explores how policy formation can be more incisively analyzed inside the black box of state decision-making from a Weberian perspective. This is exemplified by the passage of the 1858 Medical Act in the United Kingdom establishing the statesupported medical profession. While further work is necessary in filling in the black box, this paper charts an important future path for neo-Weberian analyses of professions, and their relationship with the state.

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“…In Barbalet's (2011: 39) words, the judge's attention is drawn "not only to objects and events external to the emoting subject but also to the emoting subject's internal states". Her emotional expression can thus be more or less congruent with her experience; if she keeps her expressionless stone face, it amounts to 'surface acting' (Hochschild, 1983) in which the expression of the emotion is decoupled from the experience (Bergman Blix, 2015). For Swedish judges, putting on the stone face represents a kind of surface-acting emotion management technique that helps them conform to the feeling rules of the courtroom.…”

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Professional Emotions in Court

Blix¹,

Wettergren²

2018

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Professional Emotions in Court examines the paramount role of emotions in the legal professions and in the functioning of the democratic judicial system. Based on extensive interview and observation data in Sweden, the authors highlight the silenced background emotions and the tacitly habituated emotion management in the daily work at courts and prosecution offices. Following participants 'backstage' -whether at the office or at lunch -in order to observe preparations for and reflections on the performance in court itself, this book sheds light on the emotionality of courtroom interactions, such as professional collaboration, negotiations, and challenges, with the analysis of micro-interactions being situated in the broader structural regime of the legal system -the emotive-cognitive judicial frame -throughout.A demonstration of the false dichotomy between emotion and reason that lies behind the assumption of a judicial system that operates rationally and without emotion, Professional Emotions in Court reveals how this assumption shapes professionals' perceptions and performance of their work, but hampers emotional reflexivity, and questions whether the judicial system might gain in legitimacy if the role of emotional processes were recognized and reflected upon.

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Professional Emotion Management as a Rehearsal Process

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Comparing culturally embedded frames of judicial dispassion

Comparing culturally embedded frames of judicial dispassion

Vol 9 No 2 (2019)

Professional Emotions in Court

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