The Psychology of Emotions

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Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 31, 1991 - Psychology - 452 pages
Emotions are a part of personality and essential to all human relationships, but how well do we understand what they really are? What are the processes by which they occuer and influence us? How do they affect the way we perceive and interact with the world? In The Psychology of Emotions, author Carroll E. Izard provides a timely overview that focuses on the relevance of emotions to our daily lives as he addresses these and other fundamental questions on the activation, expression, experience, and functions of emotions.
 

Contents

Chapter
1
Types of Motivation
11
An Overview
20
Chapter 2
27
Differential Emotions Theory
40
What Is a Basic Emotion?
48
Glossary of Terms
54
Conceptualizations of Consciousness
60
Sadness in Grief and Depression
203
Sadness and Depression
209
Summary
225
The Facial Expression of Anger
238
The Development and Socialization of Anger
245
The Hostility Triad
254
Contempt
268
Distinctions between Hostility and Aggression
275

The Emotions as Organizing Factors in Consciousness
67
Hemispheric Functions and Emotions
74
Feeling Perceiving and Knowing
81
Suggested Readings
87
The Activation of Interest
93
Physiological Changes Accompanying Interest
99
Summary
106
The Development and Socialization of Interest
115
The Development of InterestCognition Interactions
118
The Interaction of Interest with Other Emotions and Drives
124
Chapter 6
130
Other Functions of Joy
139
Joy and Mental Health
148
Interactions of Joy with Perception Cognition and Action
161
Explaining the Functions of Emotion Experiences
168
Summary
174
The Significance of Surprise
180
The Development and Socialization of Sadness
193
The Interaction of Sadness with Other Emotions Cognition
196
Chapter 13
278
The Role of Learning and Experience
290
Distinguishing Fear from Other Emotions
297
The Functions of Fear
303
Summary
311
The Expression of Shyness
314
Suggested Readings
327
Shame and the Defense of Self and Personal Integrity
343
Characteristics of Guilt
356
Theoretical Conceptions of Guilt
369
Experimental Studies of Guilt
377
Guilt and Hostility
383
Managing Guilt
389
The BiologicalEvolutionary Heritage
395
Discrete Emotions in Mother Love
401
Summary
407
Author Index
433
Subject Index
439
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