Psychology: emotions

'A wonderful book' Richard Osman'So clear and true .

'Required reading .

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Few books change one's life; in 48 hours this has improved mine' Jenni Russell, Sunday TimesHow can we make it easier to be happy?

The Confusion of Karen Carpenter, a book that will make you laugh and cry, is by Coronation Street scriptwriter Jonathan Harvey.

Good managers understand the human condition and human needs.

Social policy and political theory are based upon rationalist models of the human subject.

This lucid and original work argues for a new style of political leadership, one which pays deliberate and sophisticated attention to the emotional dynamics of the public.

Through 'live' material from consulting practice and an historical review of advice-giving to pre-modern leaders, this book uncovers a distinctive 'feminine' discourse of management consulting.

This unique collection of articles on emotion by Wittgensteinian philosophers provides a fresh perspective on the questions framing the current philosophical and scientific debates about emotions and offers significant insights into the role of emotions for understanding interpersonal relations and the relation between emotion and ethics.

Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that reductionist accounts of emotions leave us in a state of poverty regarding our understanding of our world and of ourselves.

Men and the Language of Emotions challenges the commonly held association of rationality with masculinity, involving distancing from the language of emotions.

This book highlights a hitherto neglected element of leadership - personality.

Engendering Emotions examines the production and promotion of the idea of sex/gender difference in emotional experience and expression in the contemporary West.

In recent years there has been considerable interest in emotional intelligence.

The central concern of this ambitious study is to understand the impact of social change on people's lives - in the vital areas of economy, politics and civil society.

The blush is a ubiquitous, but little understood, phenomenon.

Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology.

Leading international scholars present novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as between the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to offer critical insights which are highly relevant to the current intellectual debates and social praxis.

Presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner, this exploration of a topic that has been veiled by taboo, the psychology of excretion, surveys an assortment of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting habits taking the reader on a tour of the history and literature of elimination.

Reassessing the Employment Relationship is an edited volume written by leading academics at Cardiff Business School.

The first academic textbook covering European retail fashion buying and merchandising.

Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement.

Does empathy help us to be moral?

Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology.

The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism.

Delivers a strong contribution to the field of research on emotions in organizations offering original pieces of research.

Alarge-scale investigation on how multilinguals feel about their languages and use them to communicate emotion.

Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pathological emotional conditions.

This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions.

As the World Thought Leaders on Customer Experience, Colin Shaw and the team at Beyond Philosophy have undertaken more than 18 months of groundbreaking research to discover the emotions that drive and destroy value in an organization, and can now disclose the empirical link between evoking these emotions and substantial financial returns.

In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider offers a valuable and eloquent contribution to the critical tradition.

A practical book detailing how to implement EI (emotional intelligence) techniques for human resource professionals and trainers developing managers and leaders.

The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the film-maker John Ford, and actor John Wayne.

Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy.

On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms.

Darwin's work of 1872 still provides the point of departure for research in the theory of emotion and expression.

Was treibt den Menschen an, dem eigenen Leben einen Sinn zu verleihen?

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide is the first interdisciplinary reference resource which authoritatively takes stock of the progress made both in the philosophy of emotions and in affective science from Ancient Greece to today.

Do the emotional responses of students and to traumatic conflict constitute insurmountable obstacles in peace education efforts?

Do the emotional responses of students and to traumatic conflict constitute insurmountable obstacles in peace education efforts?

Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder.

Emotion in Interaction offers a collection of original studies that explore emotion in naturally occurring spoken interaction.

Modernism and melancholia share an intellectual fate: being at once categories, conditions, discourses, modes of expression, and social projects, they feed on their own ambiguity.

The relationship between empathy and morality has long been debated.

It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties.

Our modern-day word for sympathy is derived from the classical Greek word for fellow-feeling.

The emotions a character feels--Hamlet's vengefulness when he realizes his uncle has killed his father, Anna Karenina's despair when she feels she can longer sustain her life, Marcel's joy when he tastes a piece of madeleine cake--are vital aspects of the experience of fiction.

Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion.

Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion.

Over the last decade, the field of socio-emotional development and aging has rapidly expanded, with many new theories and empirical findings emerging.