Understanding Emotions
Keith Oatley
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Description for Understanding Emotions
Hardback. Suitable for the emotions course, this title focuses on the psychology of emotions. Num Pages: 536 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 187 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1132.
Keith Oatley and Jennifer M. Jenkins’s best-selling book on the psychology of emotions is the most highly regarded and engaging text for the emotions course. While retaining its interdisciplinary breadth, historical insights, and engaging format, this new edition adds the expertise of outstanding researcher and dedicated teacher Dacher Keltner. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research and developments in emotions and includes the following features:
- Cohesive synthesis of evolutionary and cultural approaches to emotion
- New chapters on communication of emotion, bodily changes, and appraisal
- Increased emphasis on interpersonal implications of emotions, including studies of newly discovered expressions ... Read more
- New coverage on moral judgment, individual differences, gene-environment interactions, and positive emotions
- New coverage of subjective well-being and pro-social emotions like gratitude and compassion
- Updated references throughout reflect current research and data, including research on affective neuroscience
- A new design and pedagogical features include new integrated boxes that depict historical landmarks and historical figures, updated tables, boldfaced terms, and end-of-chapter summaries.
An Instructor's Manual with lecture notes and teaching tips is available upon request. Please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/oatley.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405131025
SKU
V9781405131025
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Keith Oatley
Keith Oatley is Director of the Cognitive Science Program, University of Toronto. He is the author of more than 130 scholarly articles and seven books, including Emotions: A Brief History (Blackwell, 2004), and two novels. Dacher Keltner is professor of psychology at University of California at Berkeley, and the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and one ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Emotions
“This new edition is as delightful and informative as its predecessor. It includes the important advancements in research made over the past 10 years, and carries the clear fruits of its enlarged authorship.” Nico Frijda, University of Amsterdam “Understanding Emotions provides an admirable theoretical integration of empirical research and, at the same time, makes emotion research relevant to our ... Read more