Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium

by Edited by Antony S. R. Manstead , Nico Frijda , Agneta Fischer

• ISBN13: 9780521521017
• ISBN10: 0521521017
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Emotions are central to human behavior and experience. Yet scientific theory and research ignored emotions during most of the 20th century. This situation changed dramatically during the last 30 years of that century, which witnessed an upsurge of interest in emotions in a number of disciplines. This book arises from the 24 keynote papers presented at a symposium held in June 2001 that had the same title as this volume. The aim of that meeting was to review the current state of the art of research on emotions from a multidisciplinary perspective. Each chapter is authored by an acknowledged authority in the field. Together they provide an overview of what is currently being studied and thought about emotions, in disciplines ranging from neurophysiology and experimental psychology to sociology and philosophy.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
1 Introduction	1	(10)
Antony S.R. Manstead, Nico H. Frijda, and Agneta H. Fischer
PART I THE NATURE OF FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
2 On the Passivity of the Passions	11	(19)
Robert C. Solomon
3 Emotions and Rationality	30	(19)
Jon Elster
4 Emotions and Feelings: A Neurobiological Perspective	49	(9)
Antonio R. Damasio
5 The Concept of an Evolved Fear Module and Cognitive Theories of Anxiety	58	(23)
Arne Öhman and Stefan Wiens
6 Deconstructing the Emotions for the Sake of Comparative Research	81	(17)
Richard A. Shweder
7 From the Emotions of Conversation to the Passions of Fiction	98	(21)
Keith Oatley
PART II BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
8 What We Become Emotional About	119	(17)
Paul Ekman
9 Feelings Integrate the Central Representation of Appraisal-driven Response Organization in Emotion	136	(22)
Klaus R. Scherer
10 Emotions and Action	158	(16)
Nico H. Frijda
11 Basic Affects and the Instinctual Emotional Systems of the Brain: The Primordial Sources of Sadness, Joy, and Seeking	174	(20)
Jaak Panksepp
12 Exposure Effects: An Unmediated Phenomenon	194	(10)
Robert B. Zajone
13 Feeling States in Emotion: Functional Imaging Evidence	204	(19)
Joel S. Winston and Raymond J. Dolan
PART III FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS: THE PLACE OF PLEASURE
14 The Affect System: What Lurks below the Surface of Feelings?	223	(20)
John T. Caeioppo, Jeff T. Larsen, N. Kyle Smith, and Gary G. Berntson
15 Pleasure, Unfelt Affect, and Irrational Desire	243	(20)
Kent C. Berridge
16 Some Perspectives on Positive Feelings and Emotions: Positive Affect Facilitates Thinking and Problem Solving	263	(19)
Alice M. Isen
17 Pleasure, Utility, and Choice	282	(21)
Barbara A. Mellers
PART IV FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN THEIR SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT
18 The Development of Individual Differences in Understanding Emotion and Mind: Antecedents and Sequelae	303	(18)
Judy Dunn
19 Emotional Intelligence: What Do We Know?	321	(20)
Peter Salovey, Marja Kokkonen, Paulo N. Lopes, and John D. Mayer
20 Culture and Emotion: Models of Agency as Sources of Cultural Variation in Emotion	341	(18)
Batja Mesquita and Hazel Rose Markus
21 Emotion Norms, Emotion Work, and Social Order	359	(22)
Peggy A. Thoits
PART V FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, AND MORALITY
22 On the Possibility of Animal Empathy	381	(21)
Frans B.M. de Waal
23 Emotional Gifts and "You First" Micropolitics: Niceness in the Socioemotional Economy	402	(20)
Candace Clark
24 Introducing Moral Emotions into Models of Rational Choice	422	(19)
Robert H. Frank
25 Virtue and Emotional Demeanor	441	(14)
Nancy Sherman
26 Epilogue: Feelings and Emotions - Where Do We Stand?	455	(14)
Nico H. Frijda, Antony S. R. Manstead, and Agneta H. Fischer
Subject Index	469	(5)
Author Index	474