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Demystifying Emotions provides a comprehensive typology of emotion theories in psychology (evolutionary, network, appraisal, goal-directed, psychological constructionist, and social) and philosophy (feeling, judgmental, quasi-judgmental, perceptual, embodied, and motivational) in a systematic manner with the help of tools from philosophy of science, allowing scholars in both fields to understand the commonalities and differences between these theories. Agnes Moors also proposes her own novel, skeptical theory of emotions, called the goal-directed theory, based on the central idea that all kinds of behaviors and feelings are grounded in goal-striving. Whereas most scholars of emotion do not call the notion of emotion itself into question, this review engages in a critical examination of its scientific legitimacy. This book will appeal to readers in psychology, philosophy, and related disciplines who want to gain a deeper understanding of the controversies at play in the emotion domain.

Written by experts in comparative, developmental, social, cognitive and cultural psychology, this book explains how we learn to value the different objects, people and events in our environment from others' emotions. It reveals why some things are so important to us, but not at all to others.

This book introduces the forms of oral narratives concerning personal experiences, and demonstrates how the variety of viewpoints shown in stories strongly, yet unnoticeably, influence a listener's emotions. It also shows how parents can help children, and psychotherapists can assist patients, to enrich their narratives with additional perspectives.

Because of the complexity of human behaviour a large number of research variables must be constructed from building blocks of human judgement. This book describes the design, analysis and the meta-analysis of studies employing judgements in sufficient detail to enable readers to conduct such studies, and more wisely evaluate them.

Emotions play a powerful role in close relationships. Significant progress has been made in understanding how interpersonal emotion dynamics are associated with the development and maintenance of relationships across the lifespan. This book brings together perspectives from leading scholars, and is an important basis for future scientific work.

Heart to Heart develops an integrative social-psychological approach by arguing that emotions align relations between people. It addresses emotion's social effects in dyads and groups, and considers how people exploit these effects by regulating their emotions at home and at work. It is essential reading for emotion researchers and students.

Emotional Lives offers a cultural study of the growing importance of people's emotions in public life, and the role of the mass media in shaping people's relationships, identities, and emotions. The author draws examples from leisure, sports, entertainment, politics, and today's public forms of grief and mourning.

Gerald C. Cupchik builds a bridge between science and the humanities, arguing that relations between mind and body are analogous to those between subject matter and style in art. His unified emotional phase theory encompasses reactions to meaningful life events and actions, enabling people to realize goals and adapt to challenges.

This book presents an integrated developmental-interactionist theory of emotion showing how biologically-based primary emotions relate to higher-level social, cognitive/linguistic, and moral emotions. It will appeal to scholars and students in social, behavioral, and life sciences interested in the nature and communication of emotion, particularly the general theory of emotion.

Why do people gesture while speaking? What role does this activity play in verbal exchanges? Which kind of relationship does it exhibit between the verbal and the gestural domains? This 1991 book attempts to answer these questions by surveying research on gestures carried out from various perspectives.

Literature provides us with insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. Hogan's study explores emotions in the context of current neurobiological, psychological and sociological research. In each case, he draws on Shakespeare and writers from different historical periods or different cultural backgrounds.

In this book, Karl G. Heider studies the cultural constructions of emotions, examining how different cultures shape ideas and talk about emotion. The main subjects of the study are the Minangkabau, a matrilineal Muslim culture of three million people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Comparative data come from the Central Javanese, also of Indonesia.

Dijker and Koomen examine how peoples' responses to deviant conditions such as crime, illness and disability are dependent on types of deviance, personality, situation and culture. Will appeal to academics and graduates in social and health psychology as well as professionals in the health and social services.

Andrew Cuthbertson provides an English translation of the great French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne's Mecanisme de la physionomie humaine.

What are 'emotions'? Drawing together the threads of current research on the nature and funactions of emotional expression, of physiological reactions, and of emotional experience, this book offers a balanced survey of facts and theory. Nico Frijda discusses the motivational and neurophysiological preconditions for emotions, and the ways in which emotions are regulated by the individual.

In Speaking From the Heart Professor Shields draws on examples from everyday life, contemporary culture and comprehensive research, to reveal how culturally shared beliefs about emotion shape our identities as women and men. This fascinating exploration of gender and emotion shows how emotion affects our everyday lives.

Based on a collection of video recordings, this book offers a micro-analysis of the visual and vocal aspects of the interaction between doctors and patients.

Pavlenko challenges the monolingual bias of modern linguistics and psychology by bringing together insights from many different fields.

Although is is well known that people's feelings can often influence what they remember, think and do, investigations of these effects are relatively new. Summarizing much of what has been learned in past decades, this book looks at how feelings arise, and how they can affect thought and actions.

This book, first published in 1997, offers an approach to human behavior which relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. He evokes the detail of 'human reality', with an emphasis on the role of the emotions in the social bond.

In this fascinating book, Anna Wierzbicka explores human emotions and how they are expressed in faces, bodies, and modes of speech; and she places the findings into both worldwide and culture-specific contexts.

A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion and motivation.

Hogan argues that the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. He concludes with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.

This book draws upon scholarly research to address, explain and legitimize the role that emotion plays in everyday interaction and in many of the pressing social, moral, and cultural issues that we face today.

What is it that moves and motivates us in our lives? Martijn van Zomeren proposes that social relationships are at the essence of this key question and, in a fascinating investigation into human motivation, he develops a novel and integrative psychological theory termed 'selvations theory'. The theory suggests that we are essentially relational beings that seek to regulate relationships in response to felt changes in our network of relationships (selvations). However, we need to do this in culturally appropriate ways and this is where our culturally construed self comes to be of use. From Self to Social Relationships constitutes a powerful argument about human essence, integrating major theories in and around psychology, which has strong implications for the study and practice of social motivation.

When people are in a certain mood, whether elation or depression, that mood is often communicated to others. When we are talking to someone who is depressed it may make us feel depressed, whereas if we talk to someone who is feeling self-confident and buoyant we are likely to feel good about ourselves. This phenomenon, known as emotional contagion, is identified here, and compelling evidence for its affect is offered from a variety of disciplines - social and developmental psychology, history, cross-cultural psychology, experimental psychology, and psychopathology.

Emotions are an elemental part of life - they imbue our existence with meaning and purpose, and influence how we engage with the world around us. But we do not just feel our own emotions; we typically express them in the presence of other people. How do our emotional expressions affect others? Moving beyond the traditional intrapersonal perspective, this is the first book dedicated to exploring the pervasive interpersonal dynamics of emotions. Integrating existing theory and research, van Kleef develops the Emotions as Social Information (EASI) theory, a groundbreaking comprehensive framework that explains how emotional expressions influence observers across all domains of life, from close relationships to group settings, conflict and negotiation, customer service, and leader-follower relations. His deeply social perspective sheds new light on the fundamental question of why we have emotions in the first place - the social influence emotions engender may very well constitute their raison d'etre.

If there is one value that seems beyond reproach in modernity, it is that of the self and the terms that cluster around it, such as self-esteem, self-confidence and self-respect. It is not clear, however, that all those who invoke the self really know what they are talking about, or that they are all talking about the same thing. What is this thing called 'self', then, and what is its psychological, philosophical and educational salience? More specifically, what role do emotions play in the creation and constitution of the self? This book proposes a realist, emotion-grounded conception of selfhood. In arguing for a closer link between selfhood and emotion than has been previously suggested, the author critically explores and integrates self research from diverse academic fields. This is a provocative book that should excite anyone interested in cutting-edge research on self-issues and emotions that lies at the intersection of psychology, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy and moral education.

This thoughtful and beautifully written book demonstrates compellingly that emotions are central to personality development across the lifespan. Carol Magai and Jeannette Haviland-Jones draw on a wealth of textual and film material to forge an original empirical and theoretical analysis of the dynamics of emotion in human development. For its content, the work examines the lives of three mid-century psychologists, Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, and Fritz Perls. Each man adopted a unique stance on the question of emotion in personality and in therapeutic interventions and, tellingly, the therapeutic methods they developed necessarily reflected their own emotional dynamics. Drawing on the most important research in clinical, social, and personality psychology, the authors reveal the pervasive influence of emotional organization in the lives of these individuals. Having presented a new approach to personology, autobiography, autobiography, narrative studies, psychotherapy and the theory of emotions on its publication in 2002, this book is essential reading.