| Description |
xx, 451 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Emotions, personality, and psychotherapy |
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Emotions, personality, and psychotherapy.
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| Contents |
On the origins and functions of emotions -- Defining emotions and their relations to cognition, action, and personality -- Emotions, consciousness, and emotion-cognition relations -- Interest-excitement : activation, expression, and experience -- Interest-excitement : development, social relations, and personality -- Enjoyment-joy : a force for psychological well-being and social bonds -- Joy : empirical studies -- Surprise-astonishment -- Sadness -- Sadness in grief and depression -- Anger -- Disgust and contempt -- Fear and anxiety -- Shyness -- Shame -- Guilt, conscience, and morality -- Love |
| Summary |
"The Psychology of Emotions is well supported in its content by experimental research findings and contains an extensive list of suggested readings from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Students of personality, social, developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychology will find this book to be a uniquely innovative and valuable resource. For students of emotions, it is the first textbook that provides a systematic, chapter-length treatment of each of eleven basic emotions, along with an account of their roles in important personality, social, and clinical processes."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Emotions |
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Emotions |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliograpy: pages 411-431 |
| Subject |
Emotions.
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Emotions.
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| LC no. |
91021729 |
| ISBN |
0306438658 |
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