The Psychobiology of Emotions (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)

Regardless of culture, most adult humans report experiencing similar feelings such as anger, fear, humor, and joy. Such subjective emotional states, however, are not universal. Members of some cultures deny experiencing specific emo tions such as fear or grief. Moreover, within any culture, individuals differ widely in their self-reports of both the variety and intensity of their emotions. Some people report a vivid tapestry of positive and negative emotional experi ences. Other people report that a single emotion such as depression or fear totally dominates their existences. Still others report flat and barren emotional lives. Over the past 100 years, scientists have proposed numerous rival explana tions of why such large individual differences in emotions occur. Various authors have offered anthropological, biochemical, ethological, neurological, psycholog ical, and sociological models of human emotions. Indeed, the sheer number of competing theories precludes a comprehensive review in a single volume. Ac cordingly, only a representative sample of models are discussed in this book, and many equally important theories have been omitted. These omissions were not intended to prejudice the reader in favor of any particular conceptual frame work. Rather, this selective coverage was intended to focus attention upon the empirical findings that contemporary theories attempt to explain."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy
Release date:	May 1988
First published:	1988
Authors:	Jack George Thompson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
Edition:	1988 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-42843-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	0-306-42843-1
Barcode:	9780306428432

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