Perspectives on Anger and Emotion

by Wyer, Robert S.; Srull, Thomas K.; Berkowitz, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780805813272
• ISBN10: 0805813276
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pr

Summary

In this volume, Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: some are highly cognitive in nature; others are automatic and involuntary. Cognitive and associative mechanisms theoretically come into play at different times in the emotion-cognition sequence. The model he proposes, therefore, integrates theoretical positions that previously have been artificially segregated in much of the emotion-cognition literature. The breadth of the implications of Berkowitz's theory is also reflected in the diversity of this book's companion chapters. Written by researchers whose work focuses on both social cognition and emotion, these articles provide important insights and possible extensions of the "cognitive-neoassociationistic" conceptualization developed in the target article. Although each chapter is a valuable contribution in its own right, this volume, taken as a whole, is a timely and important contribution both to social cognition and to research and theory on emotion per se.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Towards a General Theory of Anger and Emotional Aggression: Implications of the Cognitive -- Neoassociationistic Perspective for the Analysis of Anger and Other Emotions	p. 1
Endnotes	p. 37
References	p. 41
Putting the Social in Social Cognition, With Special Reference to Emotion	p. 47
Acknowledgment	p. 54
References	p. 55
Where Does Anger Dwell?	p. 57
References	p. 85
Affect, Appraisal, and Action: Towards a Multiprocess Framework	p. 89
References	p. 105
The Network Model of Emotion: Motivational Connections	p. 109
Endnotes	p. 128
Acknowledgments	p. 128
Endnotes	p. 129
A Componential, Self- Regulative Systems View of Berkowitz's Cognitive- Neoassociationistic Model of Anger	p. 135
References	p. 145
The Role of Cognition and Effort in the Use of Emotions to Guide Behavior	p. 147
Endnotes	p. 156
References	p. 156
Those to Whom Evil Is Done	p. 159
References	p. 164
On the Scientific Study of Angry Organisms	p. 167
References	p. 177
More Thoughts About the Social Cognitive and Neoassociationistic Approaches: Similarities and Differences	p. 179
Endnotes	p. 195
References	p. 196
Author Index	p. 199
Subject Index	p. 205
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