Author: Patricia PlinerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468435485
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Perception of Emotion in Self and Others
Author: Patricia PlinerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468435485
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Perception of emotion in self and others
Author: Kirk R. BlanksteinTheories of Emotion
Author: Robert PlutchikPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483270017
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Emotion: Theory, Research, and Experience, Volume 1: Theories of Emotion, presents broad theoretical perspectives representing all major schools of thought in the study of the nature of emotion. The contributions contained in the book are characterized under three major headings - evolutionary context, psychophysiological context, and dynamic context. Subjects that are discussed include general psycho-evolutionary theory of emotion; the affect system; the biology of emotions and other feelings; and emotions as transitory social roles. Psychologists, sociobiologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, ethologists, and students the allied fields will find the text a good reference material.
Feelings
Author: James D. LairdPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190282738
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Feelings argues for the counter-intuitive idea that feelings do not cause behavior, but rather follow from behavior, and are, in fact, the way that we know about our own bodily states and behaviors. This point of view, often associated with William James, is called self-perception theory. Self-perception theory can be empirically tested by manipulating bodily states and behaviors in order to see if the corresponding feelings are produced. In this volume, James D. Laird presents hundreds of studies, all demonstrating that feelings do indeed follow from behavior. Behaviors that have been manipulated include facial expressions of emotion, autonomic arousal, actions, gaze, and postures. The feelings that have been induced include happiness, anger, fear, romantic love, liking, disliking, hunger, and feelings of familiarity. These feelings do not feel like knowledge because they are knowledge-by-acquaintance, such as the knowledge we have of how an apple tastes, rather than verbal, knowledge-by-description, such as the knowledge that apples are red, round, and edible. Many professional theories of human behavior, as well as common sense, explain actions by an appeal to feelings as causes. Laird argues to the contrary that if feelings are information about behaviors that are already ongoing, feelings cannot be causes and that the whole mechanistic model of human behavior as "caused" in this sense seems mistaken. He proposes an alternative, cybernetic model, involving hierarchically stacked control systems. In this model, feelings provide feedback to the control systems, and in a further elaboration, this model suggests that the stack of control systems matches a similar stack of levels of organization of the world. An original contribution to the study of the relationship between feelings and behavior, the volume will be of interest to social, emotional, and cognitive psychologists.
Consciousness & Emotion
Author: Ralph D. EllisPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027294615
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of self-organizational activity, for the purpose of maintaining a dynamical continuity of pattern across changes of subserving micro-constituents and environmental conditions, making use of multiple shunt mechanisms, feedback loops, and other complex dynamical features. Self-organizational structure is used to distinguish between action and mere reaction. Accordingly, the papers of this volume by leading students of emotion such as Jaak Panksepp, Luc Ciompi, Thomas Natsoulas, Farzaneh Pahlavan, Michela Balconi, Todd Lubart, Louise Sundararajan, Jordan Petersen and others address three main issues: I. Emotional influences on perception and thought II. Agency and choice III. Agency and moral value
The Emotions
Author: Rom HarrePublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 144623794X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
`There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole field... it is such a blockbuster that one can only reel backwards and tell anyone studying the subject that they would be crazy not to get it′ - Self & Society This fascinating book overviews the psychology of the emotions in its broadest sense, tracing historical, social, cultural and biological themes and analyses. The contributors - some of the leading figures in the field - produce a new theoretical synthesis by drawing together these strands. From the standpoint of the function of the emotions in everyday life, the authors focus on: the discursive role played by the emotions in expressing judgements about, attitudes to and contrition for actions done by the self and others, and how certain emotions - such as guilt, shame, embarrassment, chagrin and regret - seem to play a role in social control; the variation and diversity in emotion, which provides scope for exploring how patterns of emotion contrast in different societies, across gender lines, at different historical times, and between children and adults; and the way in which the body is shaped and its functions influenced by culturally maintained patterns of emotion displays.
Active Inference
Author: Thomas ParrPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262362287
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, active inference provides an integrated perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior that is increasingly used across multiple disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Active inference puts the action into perception. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of active inference, covering theory, applications, and cognitive domains. Active inference is a “first principles” approach to understanding behavior and the brain, framed in terms of a single imperative to minimize free energy. The book emphasizes the implications of the free energy principle for understanding how the brain works. It first introduces active inference both conceptually and formally, contextualizing it within current theories of cognition. It then provides specific examples of computational models that use active inference to explain such cognitive phenomena as perception, attention, memory, and planning.
Emotional Intelligence
Author: Peter SaloveyPublisher: National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing
ISBN: 9781887943727
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Bool of readings collected by cd-founders of emotional intelligence introduces theory measurement & applications of.
The Self-Conscious Emotions
Author: Jessica L. TracyPublisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462515185
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Timely and authoritative, this volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge on the self-conscious emotions and their role in psychological and social functioning. Leading investigators approach the subject from multiple levels of analysis, ranging from basic brain mechanisms to complex social processes. Chapters present compelling advances in research on the most fundamental self-conscious emotions: embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, pride, and shame. Addressed are neural and evolutionary mechanisms, developmental processes, cultural differences and similarities, and influences on a wide array of social behaviors and personality processes. A unique chapter on assessment describes and evaluates the full range of available measures.
Emotion
Author: Margaret S. ClarkPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780803946132
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Topics central to an understanding of emotion - such as the concept of emotional intensity, cross-cultural specificity in emotion, and the links between emotion and cognition - are discussed in this volume. Self-perception, manipulating emotions, categorization of theories, the question of whether existing theories are complementary or competing and the usefulness of some well-established models of emotion are among the other topics explored. Distinguished researchers in emotion contribute new ideas and this volume will be of interest to experienced researchers as well as beginning students.