Bøger af Brian Parkinson

Brian Parkinson follows the main highways and back country roads, stopping off at New Zealand's most spectacular locations. Parkinson writes that 'natural history is as much about history as it is about nature' and examines how New Zealand's natural environment has dramatically changed since people first stepped ashore.

A concise overview of research into emotion, focusing on cognitive appraisal, bodily changes, action tendencies and expressive displays. The text challenges emotion as an individual intrapsychic phenomenon, and forms a conceptual framework based on emotion as interpersonal communication.

Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast, this book tries to understand emotion from the 'outside,' by examining the everyday social settings in which it operates. It provides a review of theory and research on these topics from a social psychological perspective.