Book covers a broader range of topics than other books in this area. Notably, extensive coverage of the neurobiology of anger in context of psychology and sociology is unique.

Book provides broad, integrative coverage while avoiding unnecessary duplication. Contributors have read each others chapters and there is extensive cross-referencing from chapter to chapter.

Book contains a guide to content and organization of chapters and topics, along with interpolated commentary at the end of each section.

Those interested in the relationships between psychological and physiological functions will again and again be impressed by the fact that great individual differences and large situational variability are manifested in psychophysiological data. Psychophysiology from a differential perspective has been an enduring theme throughout the history of personality and temperament research. However, the present book is the first to bear the word differential in its title. Actually, this monography is not only concerned with psychophysiological personality research, but with a much broader program of systematic investigation. Multivariate research methodology permits one to operationalize physiological response profiles, both with regard to lasting differences between persons and the discrimination of situations. In order to determine functional relationships between person characteristics and situational demands, that is, to determine the processes of stimulus-response mediation, one first needs to systemize these various sources of variance in assessment models and subsequently partition the observed covariance. A series of the author's own investigations in the Hamburg and Freiburg laboratories shows just how fruitful this research approach can be.

Emotionen sagen, was fur uns wirklich wichtig ist. Wir erleben im Alltag Gefuhle wie Freude, Angst und Traurigkeit und "erkennen" Emotionen bei anderen Menschen. Die psychologische Forschung hat sich seit uber 100 Jahren mit Emotionen befasst. Heute verfugen wir uber ein grosses Repertoire an Methoden zur Auslosung von Emotionen und zu deren Messung. Psychologische und neurobiologische Erklarungsansatze geben Antworten auf die Frage, wie Emotionen entstehen. Umgekehrt beeinflussen Emotionen unser Denken und unser Verhalten. Das Lehrbuch behandelt in verstandlicher Form zentrale Fragen der Emotionsforschung. Es orientiert sich dabei an klassischen Theorien und Untersuchungen wie auch an aktueller Forschung.