Understanding Emotions
Author | : Keith Oatley |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1996-02-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 1557864942 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781557864949 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This new textbook is the first book to fully span the fast growing field to research on emotions. It ranges across a broad range of disciplines, covering the entire lifespan from infancy to adulthood. Its main theme is that emotions have functions: they set priorities among our concerns and they provide the underlying structure of human friendships, to the excitements of sexuality. Understanding Emotions is designed as a textbook for second- and third-year university courses, and the text itself is fully supported by introductions and summaries, suggestions for further reading, plus a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary.