Handbook of Emotions

by Lewis, Michael; Haviland-Jones, Jeannette M.

• ISBN13: 9780898629880
• ISBN10: 0898629888
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-15
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Once relegated to the back burner of psychological science, emotions are now recognized as an essential area of interdisciplinary investigation. This fully revised and updated second edition of the Handbook of Emotions provides a comprehensive analysis of what is currently known about emotion in human behavior. Demonstrating the vitality and strength of the field--and illuminating promising directions for future research--new and revised chapters bring readers up to date on the extensive theoretical and empirical gains that have been made since the publication of the classic first edition. Unique in the breadth and depth of its coverage, the second edition of the Handbook is the definitive resource for students, researchers, and clinicians.

Table of Contents

Interdisciplinary Foundations

The Philosophy of Emotions

History of Emotions: Issues of Change and Impact

Representing Emotional Meaning: Category, Metaphor, Schema, Discourse

Social Models in the Explanation of Emotions

The Psychologists' Point of View

Emotion and Clinical Depression: An Environmental View

Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions

Emotion, Art, and the Humanities

Biological and Neurophysiological Approaches to Emotion

Emotions as Natural Kinds within the Mammalian Brain

Emotional Networks in the Brain

The Psychophysiology of Emotion

Emotion and Behavior Genetics

Multiple-Measure Approaches to the Study of Infant Emotion

Vocal Communication of Emotion

Facial Expression of Emotion

Developmental Changes

Motivational, Organizational, and Regulatory Functions of Discrete Emotions

The Emergence of Human Emotions

Understanding Emotion

Emotion and Identity

The Social Context of Emotional Development

Social/Personality Issues

Subjective Emotional Well-Being

Gender, Emotion, and Expression

The Effects of Mood on Social Judgment and Reasoning

Emotion Expression in Groups

Temperament as an Emotion Construct: Theoretical and Practical Issues

The Cultural Psychology of the Emotions: Ancient and New

Positive Affect and Decision Making

A Goal Appraisal Theory of Emotional Understanding: Implications for Development and Learning

Cognitive and Social Construction in Emotions

Emotion and Memory

Emotion Concepts

Current Directions in Emotional Intelligence Research, Peter Salovey

Health and Emotions

Emotions and Physical Illness: Causes and Indicators of Vulnerability

When Seeing Is Feeling: A Cognitive-Emotional Approach to Coping with Health Stress

Emotions and Immunity

Select Emotions

Fear and Anxiety: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Clinical Perspectives

The Development of Anger and Hostile Interactions

"Sadness"--Is There Such a Thing?

Self-Conscious Emotions: Embarrassment, Pride, Shame, and Guilt

Disgust

Love and Attachment Processes

Happiness

Empathy and Sympathy

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