Research Catalog

Title

Fifty years of the research and theory by R.S. Lazarus : an analysis of historical and perennial issues / Richard S. Lazarus.

Author

Lazarus, Richard S.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawerence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

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Description

xxiii, 425 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Psychology, Experimental > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-411) and indexes.

Contents

• Proloque: General Introduction: Issues That Make a Lifetime of Research come Together -- I. Starting Out with a Bang: My Dissertation -- II. Why Psychologists Argue: Perennial Epistemological Issues. Sect. A. The Revolt of the Late 1940s and 1950s: Individual Differences in Motivation and Defense Influence Perception. Hunger and Perception / R. S. Lazarus, H. Yousem and D. Arenberg. Is There a Mechanism of Perceptual Defense? A Reply to Postman, Bronson, and Gropper / R. S. Lazarus. Personality Dynamics and Auditory Perceptual Recognition / R. S. Lazarus, C. W. Erickson and C. P. Fonda. Perceptual Defense and Projective Tests / C. W. Eriksen and R. S. Lazarus. Effects of Failure Stress Upon Skilled Performance / R. S. Lazarus and C. W. Eriksen. Sect. B. The Ancient Greeks Started It: Relations Among Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion. Cognitive and Coping Processes in Emotion / R. S. Lazarus. Sect. C. The Unconscious.
• Autonomic Discrimination Without Awareness: A Study of Subception / R. S. Lazarus and R. A. McCleary -- III. The Transition from Laboratory to Field Research. Sect. A. Arousing Stress by Motion Picture Films. A Laboratory Approach to the Dynamics of Psychological Stress / R. S. Lazarus. A Cross-Cultural Study of Stress-Reaction Patterns in Japan / R. S. Lazarus, M. Tomita and E. M. Opton, Jr. [et al.]. Sect. B. An Early Field Study. Active Coping Processes, Coping Dispositions, and Recovery From Surgery / F. Cohen and R. S. Lazarus. Sect. C. Stress and Coping Theory and Research. The Stress and Coping Paradigm / R. S. Lazarus -- IV. The Practical Applications of Stress and Coping. Sect. A. Focus on Denial. The Costs and Benefits of Denial / R. S. Lazarus. The Trivialization of Distress / R. S. Lazarus. Sect. B. Focus on Daily Hassles. Puzzles in the Study of Daily Hassles / R. S. Lazarus. Sect. C. Focus on Psychotherapy.
• Cognition and Emotion From the RET Viewpoint / R. S. Lazarus. Sect. D. Focus on Job Stress. Psychological Stress in the Workplace / R. S. Lazarus. Sect. E. Focus on War and Peace. The Psychology of Stress and Coping: Israel as a Great Natural Laboratory / R. S. Lazarus -- V. Expanding Stress and Coping to the Emotions. Sect. A. The Utility of the Emotions in the Study of Adaptation. From Psychological Stress to the Emotions: A History of Changing Outlooks / R. S. Lazarus. Sect. B. Coping in Emotion. Coping Theory and Research: Past, Present, and Future / R. S. Lazarus.

ISBN

0805826572 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

97009632

OCLC

• 36499044
• ocm36499044

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries