Recently there has been growing awareness and acceptance of the
proposition that people do not exist in a world of physically
defined forces and events, but in a world defined by their own
perceptions, cognitions, conclusions, and imaginations. We respond
and react not to some objectively defined set of stimuli, but to
our own apperceptions of stimuli that we define subjectively. The
original essays in this volume center on one aspect of this process
of attribution: The extent to which the perception of events and
causes results in the determination, modification, or alteration of
emotions, feelings, and affective states.
This book is divided into five sections, each of which
elucidates and extends these theoretical conceptions. Part 1
provides a historical background and analytical framework for the
rest of the book. Part 2 presents chapters dealing with the sorts
of internal cues which may give rise to a feeling state. Part 3
presents a chapter discussing the evaluative needs aroused by the
internal cues. Part 4 is concerned with the process of explanation
triggered by the evaluative needs. Part 5 deals with various
external cues and how they are used to label the internal feeling
state. There is a concluding discussion of the cognitive alteration
of feeling states.
The authors deal with aggression, boredom, obesity, the control
of pain, and delusional systems. This volume is of continuing
importance to clinical and experimental psychologists as well as
social psychologists. Each of the authors takes the theoretical
concept of cognition and relates it to research in biofeedback,
physiology, social psychology, altered states of consciousness,
etc. Thus, the book bridges the gap between cognitive theory and
the use of that theory in applied research.
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