Psychology: emotions

Emotions vary extensively between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology.

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Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry.

Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others?

Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a double sense.

This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field.

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

This book explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action.

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

Is shame social?

In this landmark work, Richard Lazarus -- one of the world's foremost authorities -- offers a comprehensive treatment of the psychology of emotion, its role in adaptation, and the issues that must be addressed to understand it.

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.

Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others.

Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others.

Emotion research has become a mature branch of psychology, with its own standardized measures, induction procedures, data-analysis challenges, and sub-disciplines.

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

The academic study of religion recently has turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life.

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

In Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression.

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.

The face has long been considered the gateway to understanding human emotion and cognition.

Mindfulness and one of the roads to it, meditation, have become increasingly popular as a way to promote health and well-being.

Mindfulness and one of the roads to it, meditation, have become increasingly popular as a way to promote health and well-being.

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

Desires matter.

Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions.

Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions.

Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular.

Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular.

We rely on two different conceptions of morality.

When we think of psychology, we think of a field dedicated to understanding and curing the dark side of life--addictions, phobias, compulsions, anxieties, and on and on.

When we think of psychology, we think of a field dedicated to understanding and curing the dark side of life--addictions, phobias, compulsions, anxieties, and on and on.

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

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.

Feelings argues for the counter-intuitive idea that feelings do not cause behavior, but rather follow from behavior, and are, in fact, the way that we know about our own bodily states and behaviors.

Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry.

This volume is a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of affective sciences, which now spans several disciplines.

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

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When Oxford published Emotion and Adaptation, the landmark 1991 book on the psychology of emotion by internationally acclaimed stress and coping expert Richard Lazarus, Contemporary Psychology welcomed it as "e;a brightly shining star in the galaxy of such volumes.

What is "e;the artist type"e;?

What is "e;the artist type"e;?

Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfoundedFilms about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy.

Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfoundedFilms about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy.

What is the biological function of daily mood variations?

The scientific study of emotion has long been dominated by theories emphasizing the subjective experience of emotions and their accompanying expressive and physiological responses.

This unique volume focuses on the relationship between basic research in emotion and emotional dysfunction in depression and anxiety.

In this volume, Alex Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments on emotional intensity.

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