Psychology: emotions

Can music really arouse emotions?

For Love Understood, almost 200 strangers in over 40 countries have come together to share their most personal stories, feelings, and insights about love.

Bonne humeur, paix intérieure, confiance, sérénité…Mais aussi cafard, inquiétude, nostalgie, agacement, désespoir…Mélange subtil d’émotions et de pensées, nos états d’âme sont le cœur battant de notre lien au monde.

Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives.

Suggests that distance writing will allow mental health professionals to assign interactive practice exercises specifically focused on hurt feelings.

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

Manipulating the design process can be a stressful learning experience and it can be difficult to decide how to resolve design problems.

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.

Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history.

Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life?

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation.

In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions.

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study.

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked.

How do you deal with your emotions at work?

This book explains how emotions pervade ethical life, affecting our judgments, actions and relationships, and expressing our moral character, for better or worse.

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

Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific inquiry, for instance in mass psychology and the sociology of rituals and social movements, their importance for individuals and the social world has never been more obvious than in the past decades.

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Are Flashbulb memories special or ordinary memory formations?

First published in 1988.

Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice.

You can't move past the breakup.

This book summarizes theoretical and empirical advancements in research on uncertainty in close relationships, and recommends practical applications and extensions.

This work explores and analyzes anger.

Written by two clinical psychologists with nearly a century of combined experience, this book explains how people who suffer from depression, anxiety, or undue anger can overcome these difficulties by allowing the normal process of grieving to occur.

Positions emotion in the social world by arguing that its central function is to align relations between people.

Music is a tremendously powerful channel through which people develop their personal and social identities.

Sandtray refers to psychotherapies that use sand, water, and miniatures.

Young Refugees and Forced Displacement is about young Syrian and Iraqi refugees navigating the complex realities of forced displacement in Beirut.

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the "e;second person"e; in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding.

How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty?

Originally published in 1999, this title covers the entire empirical cycle in adolescent health research and education.

Curiosity has taken a winding path through intellectual history, from Early Christian vice to Enlightenment virtue and beyond.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being serves as the first international review of the current state of this fast-developing area of research.

The practical way to the best results.

From the moment of conception we are in the business of surviving.

Facing Feelings in Faith Communities is based on a simple premise: We have emotions because we need them.

A decade ago Brian Cahill became the victim of the greatest tragedy any parent can endure with the loss of his firstborn son, a veteran police officer in the aftermath of a painful divorce, to suicide.

Join the global movement that's making corporations more people-centric to achieve great results.

This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design.

When little things have big impacts.

From the bestselling author of Happiness and co-editor of the annual World Happiness ReportMost people now realize that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems.

This volume begins with the general assumption that suspense is a major criterion for both an audience's selection and evaluation of entertaining media offerings.

First published in 1976, this volume was completely new with original contributions and traces the advances in theory and research on anxiety and emotion of the previous decade.

Why Cope When You Can Heal?