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What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? This book seeks explanations of emotion by considering these questions. A successor to "The Brain and Emotion", it describes the nature, functions, and brain mechanisms that underlie both emotion and motivation.

For years, What the Face Reveals has been a singular collection of previously published original research using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to study facial behavior. Accompanying each article is an author commentary, prepared for this book, on the value of bringing FACS-based measurement to their area of study. The new third edition includes new research findings and applications, and extends the focus of earlier volumes to showcase thedevelopment of Animal FACS systems and applications of automated FACS measurement. What the Face Reveals is an indispensable reference to anyone who uses FACS in their research, as the studies showcased here employ a variety of methodological and design technique for the use of FACS that could be replicated or extendedin other research contexts.New to this Edition:ΓÇöRevised to include 50% new contributions, reflecting changes in facial measurement in the 21st centuryΓÇöNew structure organized around six areas of FACS research: Animal FACS, Automated Measurement, Basic Affective Science, Development, Pain, Psychopathology, and Social and Health Psychology

The study of emotions has rapidly expanded in recent decades, incorporating interdisciplinary research on the genetic underpinnings and neural mechanisms of emotion. This book offers a comprehensive account of this interdisciplinary field of research, bridging psychology, genetics, and neuroscience.

The Editors of this unique volume asked some of the world's leading emotion researchers to address 14 fundamental questions about the nature and origins of emotion. Each chapter addresses one of these questions, with often divergent answers from the more than 100 experts represented here. At the end of each chapter, the Editors highlight key areas of agreement and disagreement. In the final chapter, they outline the most important challenges facing the field and themost fruitful avenues for future research. Not a textbook offering a single viewpoint, The Nature of Emotion reveals the central issues in emotion research and theory in the words of the leading scientists working in the field today, providing a unique and highly accessible guide for students,researchers, and clinicians.

Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific inquiry, for instance in mass psychology and the sociology of rituals and social movements, their importance for individuals and the social world has never been more obvious than in the past decades. This book is the first in many years to explore this fascinating and timely topic.

The mind is a powerful anticipatory device. It frequently makes predictions about the future, telling us not only how the world might or will be, but also how it should be - or better - how we would like it to be. This book explores anticipation-based emotions - the emotions associated with the interaction between 'what is' and 'what is not (yet)'.

Why do we think that we can understand animal voices - such as the barking of a pet dog, the meows of the family cat? Why do we think of deep voices as dominant and high voices as submissive.This groundbreaking book presents a thorough exploration into how acoustically conveyed emotions are generated and processed in both animals and humans.

The volume is organized into three sections: " Nonverbal Behavior in Regulatory and Clinical Processes"; "Nonverbal Behavior in Negative Life Events"; and ,"Nonverbal Behavior in Specific Clinical Conditions,"

Bringing together some of the leading thinkers on the development of positive affect, this book aims to create a different focus for affective neuroscience. The contributors present their research on the development of positive affect in child, nonhuman, and clinical population.

During the past decade, emotional intelligence has been subjected to both scientific and public scrutiny. Numerous articles have been published on the topic in both academic journals and the popular press, testifying to the potential usefulness of emotional intelligence in psychology, business, education, the home, and the workplace. However, until now, there has been no systematic synthesis that grounds emotional intelligence in contemporary theory, whilesimultaneously sorting scientific approaches from popular fads and pseudoscience. Bringing together leading international experts from a variety of sub-disciplines, this volume aims to integrate recent research on emotional intelligence. The contributors address a set of focused questions concerning theory, measures, and applications: How does emotional intelligence relate to personality? What is the optimal approach to testing emotional intelligence? How can emotional intelligence be trained? In the final section of the book, the volume editors distill and synthesizethe main points made by these experts and set forth an agenda for building a science of emotional intelligence in the future. Science of Emotional Intelligence will be an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals in psychology, education, the health sciences, and business.

How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states? In the past ten years, research into the topic of music and emotion has flourished. This book explores the relationship between music and emotion, bringing together contributions from psychologists, neuroscientists, musicologists, musicians, and philosophers

'Affective computing' is a branch of computing concerned with the theory and construction of machines which can detect, respond to, and simulate human emotional states. This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of this rapidly expanding field, aimed at those in psychology, computational neuroscience, computer science, and AI.

Gratitude, like other positive emotions, has inspired many theological and philosophical writings, but little vigorous, empirical research. This volume examines what has become known as the most-neglected emotion.

Pleasure is fundamental to well-being and the quality of life, but until recently, was barely explored by science. Current research on pleasure has brought about ground-breaking developments on several fronts, and new data on pleasure and the brain have begun to converge from many disparate fields. The time is ripe to present these important findings in a single volume, and so Morten Kringelbach and Kent Berridge have brought together the leading researchers toprovides a comprehensive review of our current scientific understanding of pleasure. The authors present their latest neuroscientific research into pleasure, describing studies on the brain's role in pleasure and reward in animals and humans, including brain mechanisms, neuroimaging data, andpsychological analyses, as well as how their findings have been applied to clinical problems, such as depression and other disorders of hedonic well-being. To clarify the differences between their views, the researchers also provide short answers to a set of fundamental questions about pleasure and its relation to the brain. This book is intended to serve as both a starting point for readers new to the field, and as a reference for more experienced graduate students and scientists from fieldssuch as neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery.

The question of how well children recall and can discuss emotional experiences is one with numerous theoretical and applied implications. Theoretically, the role of emotions generally and emtional distress specifically in children's emerging cognitive abilities has implications for understanding how children attend to and process information, how children react to emotional information, and how that information affects their development and functioning over time.Practically speaking, increasing numbers of children have been involved in legal settings as victims or witnesses to violence, highlighting the need to determine the extent to which children's eyewitness reports of traumatic experiences are accurate and complete. In clinical contexts, the ability tonarrate emotional events is emerging as a significant predictor of psychological outcomes. How children learn to describe emotional experiences and the extent to which they can do so coherently thus has important implications for clinical interventions.

A growing body of literature on humans and animals documents the link between social integration and affiliative relationships and a variety of health and disease outcomes. This volume gathers lines of inquiry to advance the understanding of how emotion in social relationships influences health.

Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and easy-to-use, The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out about theories, concepts, methods, and research findings in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field.

Here, the foremost researchers explore the biological and psychological determinants of shyness and fear and the development and outcomes of extreme bashfulness. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested or involved in the mental health field.

This text is a review of the neuropsychology of emotion and the neural mechanisms underlying emotional processing. It is divided into four sections, preceded by an introduction summarizing each chapter and presenting future research directions.

Designed by experts in neuroscience and artificial intelligence, this book provides chapters that address questions concerning human and animal emotions, and their possible analogs in the "brains" of robots. It is intended for researchers and graduate students in neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, robotics and artificial intelligence.

N.N. Ladygina-Kohts carried out pioneering work with a chimpanzee and her son. Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child, her diary comparing Joni's development with that of her son, Rudy, had never been translated completely. This volume presents the first, complete English translation with 120 photographs.

This title represents a social psychological approach to the study of emotion. The contributors present empirical data using the "time sampling" or "experience sampling" technique developed by Brandst Atter.

Emotion research has become a mature branch of psychology. This book contains background literature, psychometric data, and copies of stimuli, instruments, scales, and coding manuals, as well as advice from leaders in the field. It also helps to find, evaluate, and implement a scale in preparation for evaluating specific research questions.

Schulkin presents neuroscientific research demonstrating that thought is not on one side and bodily sensibility on the other; biologically, they are integrated. Schulkin argues that this integration has implications for judgements about art and music, attraction and revulsion, and the perpetual inclination to explain ourselves and our surroundings.

Aims to pinpoint the connection feelings have with behaviour. This work presents research into feelings across the spectrum, from anger to joy to fear to romantic love. It discusses the problem of common sense, self-perception theory, the association between feelings and higher cognitive processes, and more.

Simons uses the startle reflex as a revealing model for covering how evolved neurophysiology shapes personal experience, patterns of recurrence in actions, and the systems of meaning people collectively create and transmit. Using diverse sources, Simons observes how biology is expressed in culture.

Memory and Emotion provides a sophisticated profile of how memory is shaped both by emotion and emotional disorders. A wide range of topics are covered, including the biology of traumatic memory; the memory disorders produced by depression and anxiety; the nature of emotional memory in children and in the elderly; and memory for the Holocaust.

In this volume, Robert Solomon brings together some of the best Anglo-American philosophers now writing on the philosophy of emotion who have interdisciplinary interests, particularly in the social sciences. The essays included here should appeal to a broad spectrum of emotion researchers as well as philosophers interested, or at least curious, about their emotions.

Presents the study of facial expression. This book addresses topics and questions such as the dynamic and morphological differences between voluntary and involuntary expressions, the relationship between what people show on their faces and what they say they feel. It also presents the research on automating facial measurement.

The appraisal process is the rational process of judgment and interpretation that occurs during an encounter with the environment, leading to the experience of emotion. This volume is intended as a primary source of information on this phenomenon.