Grief and the Significance of Loss | Emotion Researcher

Introduction Grief is an emotional response to loss. But of course, not all emotional response to loss is grief. Most obviously, our emotional responses to minor or insignificant losses are not typically grief. I will begin this contribution by sketching an account of the kind of significance that makes a loss sufficient for grief. Furthermore, what makes a loss significant also explains the relation we stand in to grief’s object: a temporally extended relation of acknowledgement and...