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The nature of emotion : fundamental questions

Author: Paul Ekman; Richard J Davidson
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series: Series in affective science.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Ekman; Richard J Davidson
ISBN: 019508943X 9780195089431 0195089448 9780195089448
OCLC Number: 30473538
Description: xiv, 496 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Are there basic emotions? In the eyes of the beholder / James R. Averill --
All emotions are basic / Paul Ekman --
The basics of basic emotion / Jaak Panksepp --
Toward a concept of "modal emotions" / Klaus R. Scherer --
"You're not sick, you're just in love" : emotion as an interpretive system / Richard A. Shweder --
Afterward / Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson. How are emotions distinguished from moods, temperament, and other related affective constructs? On emotion, mood, and related affective constructs / Richard J. Davidson --
Moods, emotions, and traits / Paul Ekman --
Varieties of effect : emotions and episodes, moods, and sentiments / Nico H. Frijda --
Parsing the emotional domain from a developmental perspective / H.H. Goldsmith --
Distinctions among emotions, moods, and temperamental qualities / Jerome Kagan --
The stable and unstable in emotion / Richard Lazarus --
Basic emotions ramify widely in the brain : yielding many concepts that cannot be distinguished unambiguously--
yet / Jaak Panksepp --
Emotions, moods, traits, and temperaments : conceptual distinctions and empirical findings / David Watson and Lee Anna Clark --
Afterward / Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman. What is the function of emotions? Emotions are many splendored things / James R. Averill --
Why emotions are felt / Gerald L. Clore --
Emotions as functional, most of the time / Nico H. Frijda --
Human emotions : a functional view / Robert W. Levenson --
Emotion serves to decouple stimulus and response / Klaus R. Scherer --
Distinguishing functional from dysfunctional affective responses / Lee Anna Clark and David Watson --
Afterward / Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson. How is evidence of universals in antecedents of emotion explained? It's a small world, but a large stage / James R. Averill --
Antecedent events and emotion metaphors / Paul Ekman --
Some reasons to expect universal antecedents of emotion / Phoebe C. Ellsworth --
Universal antecedents exist, and are interesting / Nico H. Frijda --
Universal antecedents of the emotions / Richard Lazarus --
Evidence for both universality and cultural specificity of emotion elicitation / Klaus R. Scherer --
Afterward / Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson. What are the minimal cognitive prerequisites for emotion? Why emotions require cognition / Gerald L. Clore --
Levels of thought and levels of emotion / Phoebe C. Ellsworth --
Emotions require cognition, even if simple ones / Nico H. Frijda --
Cognition is one of four types of emotion activating systems / Carroll E. Izard --
Appraisal : the long and short of it / Richard Lazarus --
Cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain / Joseph E. LeDoux --
A proper distinction between affective and cognitive process is essential for neuroscientific progress / Jaak Panksepp --
An emotion's occurrence depends on the relevance of an event to the organism's goal/need hierarchy / Klaus R. Scherer --
Afterward / Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman. Is there emotion-specific physiology? Complexities in the search for emotion-specific physiology / Richard J. Davidson --
Three fundamental emotion systems / Jeffrey A. Gray --
Emotion-specific physiological activity : don't forget about CNS physiology / Joseph E. LeDoux --
The search for autonomic specificity / Robert W. Levenson --
The clearest physiological distinctions between emotions will be found among the circuits of the brain / Jaak Panksepp --
Afterward / Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman. Can we control our emotions? Emotions unbecoming and becoming / James R. Averill --
The degree of emotional control depends on the kind of personal system involved / Joseph E. LeDoux --
Emotional control : variations and consequences / Robert W. Levenson --
Afterward / Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson. Can emotions be nonconscious? Why emotions are never unconscious / Gerald L. Clore --
Emotional processing, but not emotions, can occur unconsciously / Joseph E. LeDoux --
Evidence for nonconscious emotions / Robert B. Zajonc --
Afterward / Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman. What is the relation between emotion and memory? Some relations between emotions and memory / Gordon H. Bower --
The past and present in emotion / Richard Lazarus --
Memory versus emotional memory in the brain / Joseph E. LeDoux --
Subjectivity may have evolved in the brain as a simple value-coding process that promotes the learning of new behaviors / Jaak Panksepp --
Afterward / Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman. How do individuals differ in emotion-related activity? Honoring biology in the study of affective style / Richard J. Davidson --
Personality dimensions and emotion systems / Jeffrey A. Gray --
Individual difference in emotion / Richard Lazarus --
Broad dimensions of temperament and personality / Mary K. Rothbart --
Afterward / Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson. What develops in emotional development? Two aspects of emotional development : expression and elicitation / Linda A. Camras --
Experience and understanding of emotions, relationships, and membership in a particular culture / Judy Dunn --
Intersystem connections / Carroll E. Izard --
Meaning and emotional development / Richard Lazarus --
Emotional development yields lots of "stuff"--
especially mind "stuff" that emerges from "brain" stuff / Jaak Panksepp --
Emotional development : changes in reactivity and self-regulation / Mary K. Rothbart --
Afterward / Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman. What influences the subjective experience of emotion? I feel, therefore I am--I think / James R. Averill --
Why emotions vary in intensity / Gerald L. Clore --
Emotional experience is an output of, not a cause of, emotional processing / Joseph E. LeDoux --
Evolution constructed the potential for subjective experience within the neurodynamics of the mammalian brain / Jaak Panksepp --
The vicissitudes of mood : a schematic model / David Watson and Lee Anna Clark --
Afterward / Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson. Epilogue. Affective science : a research agenda.
Series Title: Series in affective science.
Responsibility: edited by Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson.
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