In many instances, emotions do not simply happen to people by chance; Often, people actively seek out an emotion by engaging in practices that have culturally evolved to evoke that emotion. Such practices tend to be perpetuated and spread if people want to experience the emotion, like to recall it and tell others about it, want to give the emotion to others and experience it together, and/or regard the emotion as a sign of something wonderful. We illustrate this with a newly delineated emotion, kama muta. Many social practices around the world are structured to evoke kama muta. In those culturally evolved practices, and outside them, what typically evokes kama muta is a sudden intensification of communal sharing, or a sudden shift of attention to a communal sharing relationship. It seems probable that other social-relational emotions are also evoked by sudden changes in relationships or the sudden salience of a relationship. This change or saliencing may be incorporated in social practices that are perpetuated because they evoke the sought-after emotion. We suggest that such practices, as well as sudden changes in relationships that occur elsewhere, are especially promising places to discover social-relational emotions.

中文翻译：

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在文化演变为唤起情感的社会实践中寻求公共情感：崇拜、小猫视频、纪念、爱的叙述等


在许多情况下，情绪不仅仅是偶然发生在人们身上的;通常，人们通过参与文化上已经演变以唤起这种情感的实践来积极寻找一种情感。如果人们想要体验这种情绪，喜欢回忆它并告诉别人，想把这种情绪传给别人并一起体验，和/或将这种情绪视为美好事物的标志，那么这种做法往往会持续下去并传播开来。我们用一种新描述的情绪 kama muta 来说明这一点。世界各地的许多社会实践都是为了唤起 kama muta。在那些文化进化的实践中，以及它们之外，通常唤起 kama muta 的是公共分享的突然加强，或者说注意力突然转移到公共分享关系上。其他社会关系情绪似乎也可能由关系的突然变化或关系的突然显著性所唤起。这种变化或突出可能会被纳入社会实践中，这些社会实践之所以被延续，是因为它们唤起了人们所追求的情感。我们认为，这种做法，以及发生在其他地方的关系的突然变化，是发现社会关系情绪的特别有希望的地方。