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Book SynopsisThis work informs by encouraging the reader to interact with the text itself and with the literature in the area. It is a learning tool rather than an encyclopaedic presentation of its topic. The writing style is personal, direct and accessible. Citations are employed, but always for specific purposes. Cited materials are made accessible whenever possible by the provision of URLs.
Readers learn about emotion and its relationship to brain, body, cognition, memory, and appraisal. They are also introduced to the role of emotion in language and in the fine arts.
Readers of Engaging with Emotion will likely be students within the first two years of university or college taking a related course, or those who are interested in learning more about emotion. This book is ideal for adaptation to an online course format as it includes exercises and learning guides. The book uses straightforward and helpful language and examples to avoid frustrating or confusing students, but instead to keep them actively involved with the material in the book, and to help motivated learners learn.
Table of ContentsBook on Emotion-Working Outline (C. Whissell)
ReadMe (Introduction)
1. Defining Emotion
a. Dictionary definitions
b. Use of emotion in early psychology theories
c. Distinguishing emotion from mood
d. Distinguishing emotion from personality
e. A working definition for psychologists
2. Evolution of Emotion
a. Darwin’s theory of evolution
b. Darwin’s theory of emotion
c. Is there a continuity of emotion between people and animals?
d. A psycho-evolutionary theory combining Freud’s with Darwin’s theories
e. Separating emotion from cognition
3. Development of Emotion
a. Emotion in the first 6 months
b. Emotion at age 2
c. Emotion at age 5
d. Emotion at age 12
e. Emotion in developmental theories
4. Emotion in the Face
a. Experience versus expression of emotion
b. Do we “read” our own faces? [facial feedback theory]
c. Do we “read” the faces of others? [lie to me]
d. Ekman’s evolutionary theory and FACS
e. Blended expressions
5. Emotion in the Body
a. The nervous system
b. The autonomic nervous system
c. The sympathetic nervous system
d. The parasympathetic nervous system
e. “Lie” detection and the autonomic nervous system
6. Emotion in the Brain
a. A three-level model
b. The brain stem
c. The brain core
d. The grey matter
e. Examples: addiction and reward systems
7. Emotion and Memory
a. The hippocampus
b. Emotion tagging of memories
c. Emotion, memory, and aging
d. Remembering Mr. Smith
e. Emotion and brain deterioration
8. Appraisal in Emotion
a. “Automatized” emotion
b. “Thought out” emotion
c. Lazarus theory of appraisal
d. When does appraisal enter the emotion process?
e. Emotion is a continuous process
9. Emotion and Culture
a. Innate and pancultural aspects
b. Learned aspects
c. Display rules
d. Differences across historical time (diachronous)
e. Differences among cultures (synchronous)
10. Emotion and Psychopathology
a. Role of emotion in DSM 5 diagnoses
b. Emotion and Anxiety
c. Emotion and Depression
d. Role of Emotion in psychotherapy
e. Emotion in Positive Psychology
11. Measuring Emotion
a. Scales the measure Depression
b. Scales that measure Anxiety
c. Scales that measure Aggression
d. Scales that measure Happiness
e. Scales that measure Optimism/Pessimism
12. Emotion in Language
a. Words that describe specific emotions
b. Words that have emotional connotations
c. Sentiment analysis systems of different kinds
d. The Dictionary of Affect in Language
e. Examples of what the emotional tone of language reveals
13. Emotion in Art
a. Emotion in music
b. Emotion in dance
c. Emotion in poetry
d. Emotion in writing
e. Emotion in visual arts
14. Theories of Emotion
a. Revisiting evolutionary theory (Darwin, Plutchik, Ekman)
b. Revisiting semantic lexical theory (Osgood, Russell, Whissell)
c. Categorical approaches to emotion
d. Dimensional approaches to emotion
e. Conclusions about emotion
Four learning exercises accompany every chapter
1. Learning objectives
2. Terminology
3. Why this citation?
4. Experiential Learning Elements
