Keith Oatley's 3rd edition of Understanding Emotions emphasizes the value of emotions and explores the latest research with practical concerns for clinical problems, education and everyday understanding. The text extends across a broad range of disciplines and covers the entire lifespan from infancy to adulthood. It includes sections on the study of emotion, the different elements of emotion, evidence of how emotions govern and organize social life, and emotion and individual functioning, including psychological disorders and well being. Furthermore, the text offers combined chapters on evolutionary and cultural approaches, studies of new expressions (love, desire) as well as new systems of communication (touch, music), findings on emotion and the central nervous systems, and studies on the role of emotion in moral judgment. Discussions of how popular and classical movies emphasize emotions show how to keep an emotion diary to track one's emotions and interactions.
Previously published: Understanding emotions / Keath Oatley, Dacher Keltner, Jennifer M. Jenkins. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-461) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
committed to retain
Contents
Approaches to understanding emotions -- Evolution of emotions -- Cultural understandings of emotions -- Communication of emotions -- Bodily changes and emotion -- Brain mechanisms and emotions -- Appraisal, knowledge, and experience -- Development of emotions in childhood -- Emotions in social relationships -- Emotions and cognition -- Individual differences in emotionallity -- Emotion-based disorders of childhood -- Mental disorders and well-being in adulthood -- Consciousness, regulation, psychotherapy.