Psychology of Emotion: Interpersonal, Experiential, and Cognitive Approaches

by Niedenthal; Paula M.

• ISBN13: 9781841694023
• ISBN10: 1841694029
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-09-18
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This textbook discusses fundamental issues in the definition and measurement of emotion, including: conscious and unconscious processes; the ways in which emotions arise in, and are constrained by, social situations and social processes; the regulation and sharing of emotion and their effects of mental health; and the manner in which culture (including subculture) shapes or moderates some of these processes. The book also focuses on the component processes of emotion, their functions, and the ways in which these interact with the social environment. Rather than deny either that emotions are biologically determined or that they are culturally created or shaped, both biology and social situation are treated as important forces in the elicitation and the experience of emotion. Each section of the book is structured around specific approaches or models, and the precise questions that they were constructed to address. The theories and models are also placed in their in historical context.Discussion of the different approaches is elaborated by summaries of the extant scientific evidence, as well as examples of specific experiments or studies that were designed to evaluate the question. Timely, engaging real-world examples are used from a variety of international contexts. The pedagogic features, including concise introductions and summaries, discussion questions, and suggested readings, have been incorporated into the volume, making this an ideal text for a course of Emotion, which can be found as an option within many social psychology and cognitive psychology courses.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
What are Emotions and How are They Studied?	1	(38)
The Scope of the Phenomenon	3	(2)
Definitions of Emotion	5	(1)
Emotions as Component Processes	6	(4)
Theories of Emotion	10	(11)
Can We Study Emotions? Or, How Can We Study Emotions?	21	(8)
Naturally Occurring Emotions	29	(7)
Summary	36	(3)
Structure and Function of Emotion	39	(38)
Structural Accounts of Emotion	40	(3)
Basic (and Discrete) Emotions	43	(10)
Dimensional Accounts of the Structure of Emotion	53	(8)
Functional Accounts of Emotion	61	(11)
Positive Emotions	72	(4)
Summary	76	(1)
Self-conscious Emotions	77	(38)
Cognitive Achievements Underlying Self-conscious Emotions	79	(1)
Social Comparison Emotions	80	(16)
Self-evaluation Emotions	96	(17)
Summary	113	(2)
Facial Expression of Emotion	115	(40)
What are Facial Expressions of Emotion?	116	(2)
Measurement of Facial Expression	118	(3)
Origin of Facial Expressions: Nature vs. Culture	121	(8)
What Information is Provided by Facial Expressions? Emotions vs. Social Motives	129	(7)
What Information Determines the Recognition of Emotion? Face vs. Context	136	(8)
Facial Expressions and the Experience of Emotion: Facial Feedback Hypothesis	144	(9)
Summary	153	(2)
Regulation of Emotions	155	(40)
Why do People Control their Emotions? Motivations Underlying Emotion Regulation	157	(5)
How do People Control their Emotions? Emotion Regulation Strategies	162	(2)
Suppression of Expressive Behavior: Trying Not to Show It	164	(5)
Cognitive Reappraisal: Thinking about It Differently	169	(6)
Emotional Thought Suppression: Trying Not to Think about It	175	(10)
Social Sharing of Emotions: Talking about It	185	(6)
Emotion Regulation and Health	191	(2)
Summary	193	(2)
Emotion in Social Cognition	195	(38)
Affective State and the Content of Cognitive Processes	197	(21)
Influences on the Structure of Cognitive Processing	218	(11)
Summary	229	(4)
Emotion and Group Processes	233	(38)
The Group as a Place for Emotions	235	(14)
Emotions in Intergroup Context	249	(19)
Summary	268	(3)
Gender Differences in Emotion Processes	271	(34)
Stereotypical Beliefs about the Experience, Expression, and Judgment of Emotion	273	(8)
How do Men and Women Experience and Express their Emotions?	281	(6)
Gender Stereotypes as Heuristic Devices	287	(8)
How Well do Men and Women Decode Others' Emotions?	295	(4)
Why Men and Women Differ in their Emotions: Origins of Gender Differences	299	(4)
Summary	303	(2)
Emotion and Culture	305	(38)
The Cross-cultural Study of Emotion: A Brief History	308	(6)
General Culture Constructs	314	(3)
Cultural Models of Emotion	317	(4)
Do Emotions Occur in the Same Places?	321	(6)
Do Emotions Look the Same?	327	(4)
Expressing Emotions	331	(4)
Do Emotions Feel the Same?	335	(6)
Summary	341	(2)
References	343	(50)
Author Index	393	(14)
Subject Index	407