Understanding Emotions

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 book. He received the 2000 Templeton Positive Psychology Prize for Excellence in Research, and two university-wide teaching awards at UC Berkeley.Jennifer M. Jenkins is Professor in the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto. She is co-editor, with Keith Oatley, of Human Emotions: A Reader (Blackwell, 1998). She now heads a large research project on gene-environment interactions in children.

“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 everyday lives. It is the perfect book for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses on emotion.” Batja Mesquita, Wake Forest University

• Figures. Tables.Preface.Acknowledgments.Part I: Perspectives on Emotion:.1. Approaches to Understanding Emotions.2. Evolution of Emotions.3. Cultural Understandings of Emotions.Part II: Elements of emotion:.4. The Communication of Emotion.5. Bodily Changes and Emotion.6. Brain Mechanisms of Emotion.7. Appraisal, Knowledge, and Experience.Part III: Emotions and Social Life:.8. Development of Emotions in Childhood.9. Emotions in Social Relationships.10. Emotion and Cognition.Part IV: Emotions and the Individual:.11. Individual Differences and Personality.12. Emotion and Mental Health in Childhood.13. Emotions and Mental Health in Adulthood.14. Psychotherapy, Consciousness, and Well-being.Glossary.References.Subject Index.Author Index.