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Presenting state-of-the-art work on the conscious and unconscious processes involved in emotion, this integrative volume brings together leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. Carefully organized, tightly edited chapters address such compelling questions as how bodily responses contribute to conscious experience, whether unconscious emotion exists, how affect is transmitted from one person to another, and how emotional responses are produced in the brain. Bringing a new level of coherence to lines of inquiry that often remain disparate, the book identifies key, cross-cutting ideas and themes and sets forth a cogent agenda for future research.

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Author:   Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University, United States) ,  Paula M. Niedenthal (Blaise Pascal University, France) ,  Piotr Winkielman (University of California, United States) ,  Klaus R. Scherer
Publisher:   Guilford Publications
Imprint:   Guilford Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.584kg
ISBN:  

9781593854584

ISBN 10:   1593854587
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   08 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paula M. Niedenthal, and Piotr Winkielman I. Cognition and Emotion 2. Embodiment in the Acquisition and Use of Emotion Knowledge, Paula M. Niedenthal, Lawrence W. Barsalou, François Ric, and Silvia Krauth-Gruber 3. The Interaction of Emotion and Cognition: Insights from Studies of the Human Amygdala, Elizabeth A. Phelps 4. Affect and the Resolution of Cognitive Control Dilemmas, Jeremy R. Gray, Alexandre Schaefer, Todd S. Braver, and Steven B. Most II. Unconscious Emotional Processing: Perception of Visual Stimuli 5. Caught by the Evil Eye: Nonconscious Information Processing, Emotion, and Attention to Facial Stimuli, Daniel Lundqvist and Arne Öhman 6. Nonconscious Emotions: New Findings and Perspectives on Nonconscious Facial Expression Recognition and Its Voice and Whole-Body Contexts, Beatrice de Gelder 7. Visual Emotion Perception: Mechanisms and Processes, Anthony P. Atkinson and Ralph Adolphs III. Unconscious Emotional Behavior 8. Conscious and Unconscious Emotion in Nonlinguistic Vocal Communication, Michael J. Owren, Drew Rendall, and Jo-Anne Bachorowski 9. Behavior Systems and the Contextual Control of Anxiety, Fear, and Panic, Mark E. Bouton IV. The Experience of Emotion 10. Emotion Experience and the Indeterminacy of Valence, Louis C. Charland 11. Feeling Is Perceiving: Core Affect and Conceptualization in the Experience of Emotion, Lisa Feldman Barrett V. Perspectives On the Conscious–Unconscious Debate 12. Emotion Processes Considered from the Perspective of Dual-Process Models, Eliot R. Smith and Roland Neumann 13. Unconscious Processes in Emotion: The Bulk of the Iceberg, Klaus R. Scherer 14. Emotion, Behavior, and Conscious Experience, Piotr Winkielman, Kent Berridge, and Julie Wilbarger 15. Emotions, Embodiment, and Awareness, Jesse J. Prinz 16. Seven Sins in the Study of Unconscious Affect, Gerald L. Clore, Justin Storbeck, Michael D. Robinson, and David B. Centerbar

Reviews

'The chapters in this wonderful book are informative, intelligent, and occasionally startling. Emotion and consciousness are two of psychology's hottest topics, and this book explores their collision. As you might expect, the bang is a big one.' - Daniel Gilbert, PhD 'This book represents a blossoming-out of a number of important trends in thinking about emotions. Major issues related to unconscious and conscious processes in emotion -such as cognition - emotion interactions, affect induction, and embodiment in perception and thought - are examined in the context of closely reasoned and expertly executed research programs. Several chapters present promising developments of new research streams, substantially adding to insight and knowledge. Brimming with information, this is a well-written, challenging text for graduate-level students interested in current research areas and controversies in the field.' - Nico H. Frijda, PhD 'Although agreement remains scarce, emotions - both conscious and unconscious - are attracting unprecedented attention in human psychology. A banquet of theoretical perspectives is well shared in this stimulating volume, whose contributors seek to penetrate the scientific and philosophical mysteries of affective experience.' - Jaak Panksepp, PhD 'Remarkable... A rich tapestry that includes crucial summaries of state-of-the-science research and theorizing and the articulation and interrogation of key assumptions in the field. The editors did a fine job of bringing coherence to a quite heterogeneous collection of theories, concepts, methods, and research findings by insisting that each chapter explicitly consider the same set of questions and by providing a detailed roadmap to the contributions that in itself is a model of what the new science of emotion can achieve.' - Choice

"""The chapters in this wonderful book are informative, intelligent, and occasionally startling. Emotion and consciousness are two of psychology's hottest topics, and this book explores their collision. As you might expect, the bang is a big one."" - Daniel Gilbert, PhD ""This book represents a blossoming-out of a number of important trends in thinking about emotions. Major issues related to unconscious and conscious processes in emotion -such as cognition - emotion interactions, affect induction, and embodiment in perception and thought - are examined in the context of closely reasoned and expertly executed research programs. Several chapters present promising developments of new research streams, substantially adding to insight and knowledge. Brimming with information, this is a well-written, challenging text for graduate-level students interested in current research areas and controversies in the field."" - Nico H. Frijda, PhD ""Although agreement remains scarce, emotions - both conscious and unconscious - are attracting unprecedented attention in human psychology. A banquet of theoretical perspectives is well shared in this stimulating volume, whose contributors seek to penetrate the scientific and philosophical mysteries of affective experience."" - Jaak Panksepp, PhD ""Remarkable... A rich tapestry that includes crucial summaries of state-of-the-science research and theorizing and the articulation and interrogation of key assumptions in the field. The editors did a fine job of bringing coherence to a quite heterogeneous collection of theories, concepts, methods, and research findings by insisting that each chapter explicitly consider the same set of questions and by providing a detailed roadmap to the contributions that in itself is a model of what the new science of emotion can achieve."" - Choice"

The chapters in this wonderful book are informative, intelligent, and occasionally startling. Emotion and consciousness are two of psychology's hottest topics, and this book explores their collision. As you might expect, the bang is a big one. - Daniel Gilbert, PhD This book represents a blossoming-out of a number of important trends in thinking about emotions. Major issues related to unconscious and conscious processes in emotion -such as cognition - emotion interactions, affect induction, and embodiment in perception and thought - are examined in the context of closely reasoned and expertly executed research programs. Several chapters present promising developments of new research streams, substantially adding to insight and knowledge. Brimming with information, this is a well-written, challenging text for graduate-level students interested in current research areas and controversies in the field. - Nico H. Frijda, PhD Although agreement remains scarce, emotions - both conscious and unconscious - are attracting unprecedented attention in human psychology. A banquet of theoretical perspectives is well shared in this stimulating volume, whose contributors seek to penetrate the scientific and philosophical mysteries of affective experience. - Jaak Panksepp, PhD Remarkable... A rich tapestry that includes crucial summaries of state-of-the-science research and theorizing and the articulation and interrogation of key assumptions in the field. The editors did a fine job of bringing coherence to a quite heterogeneous collection of theories, concepts, methods, and research findings by insisting that each chapter explicitly consider the same set of questions and by providing a detailed roadmap to the contributions that in itself is a model of what the new science of emotion can achieve. - Choice

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Edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Department of Psychology, Boston College, USA; Paula M. Niedenthal, PhD, Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Psychology, Blaise Pascal University, France; and Piotr Winkielman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California - San Diego, USA.

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