Psychology: emotions

How do our emotions enable us to know?

We know shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps us to realize when we fail to be the kinds of people we aspire to be.

We know shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps us to realize when we fail to be the kinds of people we aspire to be.

Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways?

Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways?

Emotion dysregulation, which is often defined as the inability to modulate strong negative affective states including impulsivity, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety, is observed in nearly all psychiatric disorders.

Emotion dysregulation, which is often defined as the inability to modulate strong negative affective states including impulsivity, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety, is observed in nearly all psychiatric disorders.

Leading therapists and researchers have come to understand that many psychological disorders share common features and respond to common therapeutic treatments.

Leading therapists and researchers have come to understand that many psychological disorders share common features and respond to common therapeutic treatments.

Contemporary research on major emotional disorders emphasizes their commonalities rather than their differences.

Contemporary research on major emotional disorders emphasizes their commonalities rather than their differences.

Desires matter.

Recent conceptualization of anxiety, depressive, and related "e;emotional"e; disorders emphasize their similarities rather than their differences.

The importance of facial expressions has led to a steadily growing body of empirical findings and theoretical analyses.

From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens.

From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens.

When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the mid-twentieth century erupted into mainstream American culture in the late 1990s, it brought to the fore the idea that it is as important to improve one's own sense of pleasure as it is to manage depression and anxiety.

When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the mid-twentieth century erupted into mainstream American culture in the late 1990s, it brought to the fore the idea that it is as important to improve one's own sense of pleasure as it is to manage depression and anxiety.

Considerable research has been devoted to understanding how positive emotional processes influence our thoughts and behaviors, and the resulting body of work clearly indicates that positive emotion is a vital ingredient in our human quest towards well-being and thriving.

Considerable research has been devoted to understanding how positive emotional processes influence our thoughts and behaviors, and the resulting body of work clearly indicates that positive emotion is a vital ingredient in our human quest towards well-being and thriving.

On a mid-October evening, a group of fathers gathered around a conference table and met each other for the first time.

On a mid-October evening, a group of fathers gathered around a conference table and met each other for the first time.

Surviving the Storm presents a humanistic psychological perspective on how to support cancer survivors by offering an individualized narrative structure designed to help them tell their stories.

Surviving the Storm presents a humanistic psychological perspective on how to support cancer survivors by offering an individualized narrative structure designed to help them tell their stories.

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship.

The importance of facial expressions has led to a steadily growing body of empirical findings and theoretical analyses.

This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action.

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship.

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals.

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals.

We rely on two different conceptions of morality.

How do our emotions enable us to know?

Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children?

Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children?

Arguably no nation is as closely associated with the term morale as Great Britain.

Arguably no nation is as closely associated with the term morale as Great Britain.

Over the past four decades - and most especially in recent years as issues of identity continue to play out across the public stage - identity theory has developed into one of the most fascinating and active research programs within the spheres of sociological social psychology.

Over the past four decades - and most especially in recent years as issues of identity continue to play out across the public stage - identity theory has developed into one of the most fascinating and active research programs within the spheres of sociological social psychology.

Emotions, Values, and the Law brings together ten of John Deigh's essays written over the past fifteen years.

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning.

The volume begins with an overview by Herbert Kelman discussing reconciliation as distinct from related processes of conflict settlement and conflict resolution.

Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony, psychobiologists, to name just a few.

This book, a member of the Series in Affective Science, is a unique interdisciplinary sequence of articles on the cognitive neuroscience of emotion by some of the most well-known researchers in the area.

Mild depressions are so insidious that sufferers often don't seek help.

Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom.

In Altered Egos, Dr.

Emotion is one of the defining forces in our lives.

Gratitude, like other positive emotions, has inspired many theological and philosophical writings, but it has inspired very little vigorous, empirical research.

This volume brings together, for the first time, inquiries into the size and proximity of social networks and emotion in social relationships to advance understanding of how emotion in significant social relationships influences health.

Recently developed psychosocial treatments for anxiety disorders reflect the systematic influence of scientifically generated knowledge, and these new treatments yield strong results.