Emotion Books

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21. Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan

    By Elizabeth A. Kensinger

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there...

    Published December 14th 2008 by Psychology Press
22. Emotions

    A Social Science Reader

    Edited by Monica Greco, Paul Stenner

    Series: Routledge Student Readers

    Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective life from across the range of the social sciences. Drawing on both theoretical and...

    Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
23. A General Theory of Emotions and Social Life

    By Warren D. TenHouten

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum of the emotions and analyzes them on the sociological, psychological and neurobiological levels. This neurocognitive...

    Published November 3rd 2008 by Routledge
24. Social Relationships

    Cognitive, Affective and Motivational Processes

    Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Julie Fitness

    Series: Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology

    Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species - our personal relationships are of immense interest to us and are a key factor in achieving happiness and well being. From the moment of birth, humans crave love and intimacy and we devote much energy to creating and maintaining successful...

    Published May 27th 2008 by Psychology Press
25. Human Emotions

    A Sociological Theory

    By Jonathan H. Turner

    This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, beginning with general sociological principles, moving over important theory construction of social formation and applying this to a detailed and...

    Published June 20th 2007 by Routledge
26. Applying Emotional Intelligence

    A Practitioner's Guide

    Edited by Joseph Ciarrochi, John D. Mayer

    The explosion of research on emotional intelligence (EI) in the past decade has provided increasing evidence that EI can be measured reliably and can be useful in predicting important outcomes, such as managerial effectiveness and relationship quality. Naturally, people are now asking, "So, how...

    Published January 15th 2007 by Psychology Press
27. Psychology of Emotion

    Interpersonal, Experiential, and Cognitive Approaches

    By Paula M. Niedenthal, Silvia Krauth-Gruber, François Ric

    Series: Principles of Social Psychology

    This textbook discusses fundamental issues in the definition and measurement of emotion, including: conscious and unconscious processes; the ways in which emotions arise in, and are constrained by, social situations and social processes; the regulation and sharing of emotion and their effects of...

    Published September 17th 2006 by Psychology Press
28. The Laws of Emotion

    By Nico H. Frijda

    The Laws of Emotion is an accessible work that reviews much of the insightful new research on emotions conducted over the last ten years. It expands on the theory of emotions introduced in Nico Frijda’s earlier work and addresses a number of unanswered, basic problems on emotion theory. The...

    Published August 13th 2006 by Psychology Press
29. Savoring

    A New Model of Positive Experience

    By Fred B. Bryant, Joseph Veroff

    This book is about savoring life—the capacity to attend to the joys, pleasures, and other positive feelings that we experience in our lives. The authors enhance our understanding of what savoring is and the conditions under which it occurs. Savoring provides a new theoretical model for...

    Published June 29th 2006 by Psychology Press
30. The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior

    By John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder, Louis A. Penner

    Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines...

    Published April 24th 2006 by Psychology Press