Emotion and Consciousness

by Barrett, Lisa Feldman; Niedenthal, Paula M.; Winkielman, Piotr

• ISBN13: 9781593854584
• ISBN10: 1593854587
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-10
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Presenting state-of-the-art work on the conscious and unconscious processes involved in emotion, this integrative volume brings together leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. Carefully organized, tightly edited chapters address such compelling questions as how bodily responses contribute to conscious experience, whether "unconscious emotion" exists, how affect is transmitted from one person to another, and how emotional responses are produced in the brain. Bringing a new level of coherence to lines of inquiry that often remain disparate, the book identifies key, cross-cutting ideas and themes and sets forth a cogent agenda for future research.

Author Biography

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Boston College. Her major research focus addresses questions about the experience of emotion from a multidisciplinary perspective. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society, has authored more than 60 academic articles and chapters, and coedited The Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence.

Paula M. Niedenthal, PhD, is Director of Research in the National Centre for Scientific Research and is a member of the Laboratory in Social and Cognitive Psychology at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Author of more than 65 academic articles and chapters and several books, Dr. Niedenthal is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and is currently at work on a textbook on the study of emotion in social psychology.

Piotr Winkielman, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California-San Diego. Dr. Winkielman's current research focuses on the relations among emotion, cognition, body, and consciousness using psychological and psychophysiological approaches. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Alliance for Autism Research, and he has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Cognition and Emotion

Embodiment in the Acquisition and Use of Emotion Knowledge

The Interaction of Emotion and Cognition: Insights from Studies of the Human Amygdala

Affect and the Resolution of Cognitive Control Dilemmas

Unconscious Emotional Processing: Perception of Visual Stimuli

Caught by the Evil Eye: Nonconscious Information Processing, Emotion, and Attention to Facial Stimuli

Nonconscious Emotions: New Findings and Perspectives on Nonconscious Facial Expression Recognition and Its Voice and Whole-Body Contexts

Visual Emotion Perception: Mechanisms and Processes

Unconscious Emotional Behavior

Conscious and Unconscious Emotion in Nonlinguistic Vocal Communication

Behavior Systems and the Contextual Control of Anxiety, Fear, and Panic

The Experience of Emotion

Emotion Experience and the Indeterminacy of Valence

Feeling Is Perceiving: Core Affect and Conceptualization in the Experience of Emotion

Perspectives On the Conscious-Unconscious Debate

Emotion Processes Considered from the Perspective of Dual-Process Models

Unconscious Processes in Emotion: The Bulk of the Iceberg

Emotion, Behavior, and Conscious Experience

Emotions, Embodiment, and Awareness

Seven Sins in the Study of Unconscious Affect

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