In their investigation of the contemptuous personality, social psychologist Roberta A. Schriber and colleagues found that contempt-proneness, despite involving a tendency to look down on others, is ...

Contempt has been fairly extensively researched as an emotion. Psychologist Paul Ekman defined it as a basic emotion along with joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. He took these seven ...

Beware of the contemptuous heart! Certainly, you’ve noticed the increasing social unrest prevalent throughout the world these days. But rather than focus on world reactions to current events, I’d ...