The Wisdom in Feeling Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence

by Barrett, Lisa Feldman; Salovey, Peter; Mayer, John D.

• ISBN13: 9781572307858
• ISBN10: 1572307854
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-19
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family therapy, Bradford P. Keeney demonstrates that conventional epistemology, in which casue and effect have a linear relationship, does not sufficiently accommodate the reciprocal nature of causation in experience. Written in an unconventional style that includes stories, case examples, and imagined dialogues between an epistemologist and a skeptical therapist, the volume presents a philosophically grounded, ecological framework for contemporary clinical practice.

Author Biography

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Boston College. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Barrett's research focuses on the generation and representation of emotional experience, but she has also published papers in related areas, including the structure of affect, interpersonal relationships, experience sampling procedures, and, more generally, the role of retrospection in the self-report process.

Peter Salovey, PhD, is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He is also Director of the Department of Psychology's Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. Dr. Salovey has published over 175 articles and has been an editorial board member of several journals. A recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), he has served on the NSF Social Psychology Advisory Panel. His recent work on emotion has focused on the ways in which feelings facilitate adaptive cognitive and behavioral functioning.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Perceiving Emotion
Vocal Acoustics in Emotional Intelligence	p. 11
Emotional Intelligence and the Recognition of Emotion from Facial Expressions	p. 37
Extinction, Inhibition, and Emotional Intelligence	p. 60
Using Emotion in Thought and Action
Affect as Information: An Individual-Differences Approach	p. 89
The Trouble with Vronsky: Impact Bias in the Forecasting of Future Affective States	p. 114
Situated Cognition and the Wisdom in Feelings: Cognitive Tuning	p. 144
Emotional Response Categorization as Emotionally Intelligent Behavior	p. 167
Emotion and Persuasion: Thoughts on the Role of Emotional Intelligence	p. 191
The Role of Emotion in Strategic Behavior: Insights from Psychopathology	p. 211
Understanding Emotion
"Why is She Crying?": Children's Understanding of Emotion from Preschool to Preadolescence	p. 239
Complexity of Emotion Representations	p. 271
Managing Emotion
Wise Emotion Regulation	p. 297
Positive Emotions and Emotional Intelligence	p. 319
The Functional Utility of Negative Emotions	p. 341
Extensions
Toward a Shared Language for Emotion and Emotional Intelligence	p. 363
Sensitivity and Flexibility: Exploring the Knowledge Function of Automatic Attitudes	p. 383
Theory of Mind, Autism, and Emotional Intelligence	p. 406
Index	p. 435
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