Understanding emotions
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Understanding emotions
Blackwell Publishers, 1996
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 43 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [383]-432
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This new textbook by cognitive scientist and prize-winning novelist Keith Oatley, and developmental psychologist Jennifer M. Jenkins, is the first to fully span the fast-growing field of research on emotions. It is designed as a textbook for second- and third-year university courses, and the text itself is fully supported by introductions, summaries, and suggestions for further reading, plus a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary. Understanding Emotions ranges across the disciplines from philosophy and narrative literature through anthropology, evolutionary theory, brain research, psychology, and sociology, covering the entire lifespan, from infancy to adulthood. Its main theme is that emotions have functions: they set priorities among our concerns and they provide the underlying structure and human relatedness from attachment in infancy, to the warmth of family life and of friendships, to the excitements of sexuality. Interpersonal functions of emotions include those of anger which mediates conflict and often prompts renegotiation, and the more problematic effects of contempt.
Emotions sometimes become dysfunctional in orders of depression, anxiety, and excessive aggression, but these disorders can also be understood in terms of how they arise. The book emphasizes the human value of emotions, with practical concern for clinical problems, education and everyday understanding.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. Approaches to Understanding. 2. Cultural Understanding of Emotions. 3. Evolution of Emotions. 4. What is an Emotion? 5. Brain Mechanisms of Emotion. 6. Development of Emotions. 7. Individual Differences in the Development of Emotionality. 8. Emotions and Psychopathology in Childhood. 9. Functions and Effects of Emotions in Cognition and Persuasion. 10. Emotions and Social Relationships. 11. The Role of Emotions in AdultyPsychopathology. 12. Psychotherapy, Consciousness and Narrative.
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