Understanding emotions
- Title
- Understanding emotions / Keith Oatley and Jennifer M. Jenkins.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
- Author
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- Description
- xxvi, 448 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- This new textbook is the first book to span fully the fast-growing field of research on emotions. It extends across a broad range of disciplines, covering the entire lifespan from infancy to adulthood.
- Subject
- Contents
- Approaches to understanding -- Cultural understandings of emotions -- Evolution of emotions -- What is an emotion? -- Brain mechanisms of emotion -- Development of emotions -- Individual differences in the development of emotionality -- Emotions and psychopathology in childhood -- Functions and effects of emotions in cognition and persuasion -- Emotions in social relationships -- The role of emotions in adult psychopathology -- Psychotherapy, consciousness, and narrative.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-432) and indexes.