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. Ed(S): Rottger-Rossler, Birgitt; Markowitsch, Hans J. - Emotions as Biocultural Processes - 9780387741345 - V9780387741345
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Emotions as Biocultural Processes

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Description for Emotions as Biocultural Processes Hardback. In this book, fifteen researchers from multidisciplinary perspectives develop a common language, theoretical basis, and methodology for examining the complex interplay of biological, social, cultural and personal factors in our emotions. Editor(s): Rottger-Rossler, Birgitt; Markowitsch, Hans J. Num Pages: 418 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 779.

Emotions have emerged as a topic of interest across the disciplines, yet studies and findings on emotions tend to fall into two camps: body versus brain, nature versus nurture. Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes offers a unique collaboration across the biological/social divide—from psychology and neuroscience to cultural anthropology and sociology—as 15 noted researchers develop a common language, theoretical basis, and methodology for examining this most sociocognitive aspect of our lives. Starting with our evolutionary past and continuing into our modern world of social classes and norms, these multidisciplinary perspectives reveal the complex interplay of biological, social, cultural, and personal factors at ... Read more

A sampling of the topics: (1) The roles of the brain in emotional processing. (2) Emotional development milestones in childhood. (3) Social feeling rules and the experience of loss. (4) Emotions as commodities? The management of feelings and the self-help industry. (5) Honor and dishonor: societal and gender manifestations of pride and shame. (6) Emotion regulation and youth culture. (7) Pride and shame in the classroom.

A volume of such wide and integrative scope as Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes should attract a large cohort of readers on both sides of the debate, among them emotion researchers, social and developmental psychologists, sociologists, social anthropologists, and others who analyze the links between humans that on the one hand differentiate us as individuals but on the other hand tie us to our socio-cultural worlds.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387741345
SKU
V9780387741345
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99-15

About . Ed(S): Rottger-Rossler, Birgitt; Markowitsch, Hans J.
PD Dr. phil. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. She studied social and physical anthropology as well as Malay languages and literatures at the Universities of Goettingen, Zurich, Cologne and Bonn. Her main research focuses on the cultural patterning of emotions as well as on gender relations, life history and autobiographical narrating; Indonesian and Malay literatures. ... Read more

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