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Emotion: a biosocial synthesis

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in emotion and social interaction; 2Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014Description: xxiii, 448 pISBN:
  • 9780521813167
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4 B8E6
Summary: Emotions suffuse our lives: a symphony of feeling - usually whispering and murmuring in pianissimo but occasionally screaming and shouting in fortissimo crescendo - filling every waking moment and even invading our dreams. We can always be conscious of how happy, sad, annoyed, or anxious we feel, and also of the feelings we have relative to other persons: pride, envy, guilt, jealousy, trust, respect, or resentment. Developments in brain imaging and in capturing nuances of nonverbal display now enable the objective study of emotion and how biologically-based primary emotions relate to higher-level social, cognitive, and moral emotions. This book presents an integrated developmental-interactionist theory of emotion, viewing subjective feelings as voices of the genes: an affective symphony composed of dissociable albeit interactive neurochemical modules. These primordial voices do not control, but rather cajole our behavior with built-in flexibility, enabling the mindful application of learning, reason, and language. Reveals the true nature of 'emotional intelligence' as communication. Describes a new approach to brief therapeutic intervention via emotional education. Reviews new research on brain mechanisms of emotion, including moral emotion. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521813167
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Table of Content:

Part I. A Biosocial View of Emotion:
1. A developmental-interactionist theory of emotion

Part II. Biological Emotions: A Readout View:
2. Neurochemical systems: evolution and function
3. Structure of neurochemical systems of emotion
4. Attachment: the evolution, development, and neurochemistry of sociality

Part III. Higher-Level Emotions: An Ecological-Systems View: 5. Cognitive and linguistic emotions
6. Social emotions
7. Moral emotions: the passions of civility.

Emotions suffuse our lives: a symphony of feeling - usually whispering and murmuring in pianissimo but occasionally screaming and shouting in fortissimo crescendo - filling every waking moment and even invading our dreams. We can always be conscious of how happy, sad, annoyed, or anxious we feel, and also of the feelings we have relative to other persons: pride, envy, guilt, jealousy, trust, respect, or resentment. Developments in brain imaging and in capturing nuances of nonverbal display now enable the objective study of emotion and how biologically-based primary emotions relate to higher-level social, cognitive, and moral emotions. This book presents an integrated developmental-interactionist theory of emotion, viewing subjective feelings as voices of the genes: an affective symphony composed of dissociable albeit interactive neurochemical modules. These primordial voices do not control, but rather cajole our behavior with built-in flexibility, enabling the mindful application of learning, reason, and language. Reveals the true nature of 'emotional intelligence' as communication. Describes a new approach to brief therapeutic intervention via emotional education. Reviews new research on brain mechanisms of emotion, including moral emotion.

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521813167

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