Social Psychology 2013

Vital Memory

Ethics, Affect and Agency

By Steven Brown, Paula Reavey

To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge

Emotion and Reasoning

Edited by Isabelle Blanchette

Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

The interaction between emotion and cognition is a fundamental issue which has only recently been reintroduced as a legitimate object of study in experimental psychology. This book examines the important impact that affective processes have on reasoning, and demonstrates how emotional reasoning...

To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Psychology Press

Cognition & Emotion

Reviews of Current Research and Theories

Edited by Jan De Houwer, Dirk Hermans

Emotions are complex and multifaceted phenomena. Although they have been examined from a variety of perspectives, the study of the interaction between cognition and emotion has always occupied a unique position within emotion research. Many philosophers and psychologists have been fascinated by the...

Published May 6th 2013 by Psychology Press

Love

By Tom Inglis

Series: Shortcuts

Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of institutional religion in the West, romantic love has become the dominant form of...

Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge

Changing Emotions

Edited by Dirk Hermans, Bernard Rimé, Batja Mesquita

The question ‘how far can emotions be changed?’ lies at the heart of innumerable psychological interventions. Although often viewed as static, changes in the intensity, quality, and complexity of emotion can occur from moment to moment, and also over longer periods of time, often as a result of...

Published February 20th 2013 by Psychology Press

The Regulation of Emotion

Edited by Pierre Philippot, Robert S. Feldman

The main goal of this volume is to present, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on emotion regulation. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the processes that constitute emotion regulation and their...

Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press

The Psychology of Feeling Sorry

The Weight of the Soul

By Peter Randall

Can feeling genuinely sorry enable an important healing experience? Can relieving the weight of guilt restore a general sense of self-worth? Can an individual's dawning awareness give birth to feelings of remorse; perhaps even to acts of repentance? The concepts of betrayal, vengeance and...

Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge

Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion

By Russell Cropanzano, Jordan H. Stein, Thierry Nadisic

This book seeks to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect. The authors focus on empirical social scientific theories pertaining to fairness, mood and emotion. Most of the literature in this book is drawn from social and organizational psychology. Other areas included are management,...

Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge

Judging Passions

Moral Emotions in Persons and Groups

By Roger Giner-Sorolla

Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology

Psychological research shows that our emotions and feelings often guide the moral decisions we make about our own lives and the social groups to which we belong. But should we be concerned that our important moral judgments can be swayed by "hot" passions, such as anger, disgust, guilt, shame and...

Published January 19th 2012 by Psychology Press

Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning

Edited by Robyn Langdon, Catriona Mackenzie

Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology. The book explores what we can learn...

Published November 22nd 2011 by Psychology Press

The Importance of Suffering

The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent

By James Davies

In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional...

Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge

The Psychology of Implicit Emotion Regulation

A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

Edited by Sander L Koole, Klaus Rothermund

Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

Emotion regulation has traditionally been conceived as a deliberative process, but there is growing evidence that many emotion-regulation processes operate at implicit levels. Implicit emotion regulation is initiated automatically, without conscious intention, and aims at modifying the quality of...

Published May 5th 2011 by Psychology Press