Emotions A Brief History

Name: Emotions A Brief History
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ISBN: 9781405113151

ISBN-10: 1405113154

ISBN-13: 9781405113151

Edition: 2004

Authors: Keith Oatley

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Keith Oatley explores the history of emotions in Western and other cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions & the history of emotional development across the span of an individual.

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.55" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



Meaning and ambiguity


Emotions: signals of what is vital



Evolution, culture, and a necessary ambivalence


Inherited repertoires of emotion built upon by culture and experience



Medicine for the soul


From Epicureans and Stoics via the seven deadly sins to cognitive therapy



Emotions and the brain


Accidents, imaging technologies, the new psychopharmacology



Social histories: emotions and relationships


Social goals of aggression, attachment, affiliation, and their mixtures



Individual histories


Emotional development from childhood to maturity



Emotional disorders


Excesses of sadness, anxiety, shame, and anger



Emotional intelligence


What is it to be emotionally intelligent?


Are there skills to learn?


Endnotes


References


Index