Feelings and Emotions (eBook)

The Loyola Symposium

Magda B. Arnold (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
358 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-1613-3 (ISBN)

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Feelings and Emotions: The Loyola Symposium covers knowledge in the field of emotion. The book discusses the theories of emotions based on biological considerations; the neural and physiological correlates of feeling and emotion; and cognitive theories of feeling and emotion. The text also describes the psychological approaches to the study of emotion; the mood theory and measurement; as well as the developments related to the search for significant relations between private events and both behavioral and physiological events. The role of feelings and emotions in personality is also encompassed. Psychologists, physiologists, anthropologists, sociologists, biochemists, psychiatrists, and students taking psychology courses will find the book useful.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Feelings and Emotions: The Loyola Symposium 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 12
List of Contributors 6
Preface 8
REFERENCES 11
PART I: THEORIES BASED ON BIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS 20
Chapter 1. Emotions, Evolution, and Adaptive Processes 22
What Should a Theory of Emotion Do? 23
What a Theory of Emotion Is Not 24
Evolution and Emotion 27
The Concept of Prototype Emotions 28
Some Implications of the Theory 33
References 41
Chapter 2. The Biological Origin of Love and Hate 44
Range and the Sympathetic Nervous System 44
Lust and the Pamsympathetic Nervous System 45
Emotion and the Hypothalamus 46
Role of the Parasympathetic Nervous System 47
Orbital Cortex and Feelings 48
The Sense of Guilt 49
The Structure of Cyclothymia 50
Feelings and Willed Behavior 50
Why Emotion Overrules Reason 52
The Biochemistry of Emotion 53
References 55
PART II: PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF FEELING AND EMOTION 58
Chapter 3. Feelings as Monitors 60
Feelings and Emotions 60
Feelings and Sensations 63
Appetites and Affects 64
Appraisal, Arousal, and Salience 65
Feelings as Monitors 70
References 71
Chapter 4. The Affective Dimension of Pain 74
The Motivational Dimension of Pain 76
Affect and Emotion 81
Summary 84
References 84
Chapter 5. Emotion: Some Conceptual Problems and Psychophysiological Experiments 88
Some Conceptual Considerations 88
Some Psychophysiological Experiments 90
Conclusions 117
References 118
Chapter 6. Affect as the Primary Motivational System 120
Reference 129
Chapter 7. The Assumption of Identity and Peripheralist-Centralist Controversies in Motivation and Emotion 130
Emotion and the Assumption of Identity 134
References 140
PART III: COGNITIVE THEORIES OF FEELING AND EMOTION 142
Chapter 8. C. G. Jung's Contributions to "Feelings and Emotions": Synopsis and Implications 144
Modern Theories of Feeling 145
Jung's Feeling Function 145
Emotion and Affect 149
Jungs Concept of the Complex 150
Perry's "Affect-Ego" 151
Implications for Therapy 152
References 153
Chapter 9. Cognition and Feeling 154
First-order Emotions or Protoemotions 155
Second-order Emotions 156
Third-order Emotions 159
References 162
Chapter 10. The Information Theory of Emotion 164
Emotion and the Generalization of Conditioned Reflexes 165
Emotion and the Orienting Reflex 166
Positive Emotions 166
Classification of Emotions 166
The Neurophysiological Basis of Emotion 167
Conclusion 168
References 168
Chapter 11. The Motivational and Perceptual Properties of Emotions as Indicating Their Fundamental Character and Role 170
The Concept of Emotions as Motives 171
The Concept of Emotions as Perceptions 175
Implications of a Motivational-Perceptual Theory of Emotions 183
Summary 185
References 186
Chapter 12. Perennial Problems in the Field of Emotion 188
Origin of Emotion 188
Effects of Emotion 191
Perennial Problems 191
Emotion: Static or Dynamic? 192
Emotion as Matrix of Experience and as a Personal Reaction 195
Emotion as Organizing and as Disturbing 196
Emotion and Physiological Changes 197
References 204
Chapter 13. The Education of the Emotions 206
Emotions as Forms of Cognition 206
Emotions and Passivity 208
Emotions and Wishes 212
The Development of Appropriate Appraisals 213
The Control and Canalization of Passivity 
218 
Upshot 221
References 222
PART IV: PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF EMOTION 224
Chapter 14. Towards a Cognitive Theory of Emotion 226
The Place of Emotion in Psychology 226
Perspectives on Emotion 232
Methodological Problems in Research on Emotion 240
Concluding Remarks 247
References 248
Chapter 15. The Attitudinal Character of Emotion 252
Some Remarks on Classification and Nomenclature 252
The Negative Phase 255
References 259
Chapter 16. Emotion and Recognition of Emotion 260
Emotion as Seen by the Observer 260
The Relation of Behavior to Emotion 261
The Hierarchical Model of Emotion 265
Differentiation of Emotional Expression 267
Implications for a Theory of Emotion 268
References 269
Chapter 17. A Dictionary and Grammar of Emotion 270
Definitions 271
A Grammar 274
Conclusions 276
References 277
PART V: MOOD 278
Chapter 18. Mood: Behavior and Experience 280
Drugs and the Renewal of Interest in Mood 280
Mood Theory 282
Mood Measurement 284
Recent Developments 287
Appendix 290
References 293
PART VI: THE ROLE OF FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN PERSONALITY 298
Chapter 19. Emotional Polarity in Personality Structure 300
The Principle of Polarity 300
Other Polarities 306
Conclusion 307
References 308
Chapter 20. Feeling as Basis of Knowing and Recognizing the Other as an Ego 310
Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Body-Subject (Corps-Sujet) 311
Defining the Premises 312
The Preobjective Stage of Development 314
Primacy of the Subject-Subject Relation 315
Physiognomic Perception 317
The Role of Feeling 318
Awareness without Ego-Awareness 319
What is an Emotion? 320
Emotional Dimensions 322
Objectification 323
Conclusions 324
References 325
Author Index 328
Subject Index 336

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-1613-6 / 1483216136
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-1613-3 / 9781483216133