The positive side of negative emotions

Author(s)

• Parrott, W. Gerrod

Bibliographic Information

The positive side of negative emotions

edited by W. Gerrod Parrott

Guilford Press, c2014

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This unique volume brings together state-of-the-art research showing the value of emotions that many believe to be undesirable. Leading investigators explore the functions and benefits of sadness, anxiety, anger, embarrassment, shame, guilt, jealousy, and envy. The role of these emotions in social interactions and relationships is examined, as are cultural differences in how they are valued and expressed. The volume considers how people seek out these feelings in everyday life to improve performance, gain insight, and express cares and commitments. Negative emotions are shown to have an important place in a rich and meaningful life.

Table of Contents

I. Specific Negative Emotions 1. Can Sadness Be Good for You?: On the Cognitive, Motivational, and Interpersonal Benefits of Negative Affect, Joseph P. Forgas 2. Anxiety as an Adaptive Emotion, Adam M. Perkins and Philip Corr 3. Anger Is a Positive Emotion, Ursula Hess 4. Can Negative Social Emotions Have Positive Consequences?: An Examination of Embarrassment, Shame, Guilt, Jealousy, and Envy, Nicole E. Henniger and Christine R. Harris II. Social and Cultural Aspects of Negative Emotions 5. When Negative Emotions Benefit Close Relationships, Levi R. Baker, James K. McNulty, and Nickola C. Overall 6. On the Social Influence of Negative Emotional Expressions, Gerben A. Van Kleef and Stephane Cote 7. Listening to Negative Emotions: How Culture Constrains What We Hear, Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton, Nicole Senft, and Andrew G. Ryder 8. The Function of Negative Emotions in the Confucian Tradition, Louise Sundararajan III. The Desirability of Negative Emotions 9. Why Might People Want to Feel Bad?: Motives in Contrahedonic Emotion Regulation, Maya Tamir and Yochanan Bigman 10. Negative Emotions and the Meaningful Sides of Media Entertainment, Mary Beth Oliver, Anne Bartsch, and Tilo Hartmann 11. The Right Tool for the Job: Functional Analysis and Evaluating Positivity/Negativity, Julie K. Norem 12. Feeling, Function, and the Place of Negative Emotions in a Happy Life, W. Gerrod Parrott

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Details

• NCID: BB15033944
• ISBN:
  • 9781462513338
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 304 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 152.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Emotions