Emotions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784563431Author Zac Olusesan OdetundeFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm *...

A new take on our bio-cultural evolution explores how the "inner theatre" of the brain and its "animal-human stages" are reflected in and shaped by the mirror of cinema.Vampire, werewolf, and ape-planet films are perennial favorites-perhaps because they...

Throughout the history of psychology, there have been full investigations of discrete emotions (particularly negative ones) and a recent wealth of books on happiness, but few exist on the emotion of joy. This book takes a unique psychological approach to...

Originally published in 1982, Emotion and Early Interaction is a collection of papers by investigators who had been attempting to integrate emotion and interaction processes in early development. None professed to have all the answers, yet each paper...

What is empathy? Can it be depleted? Can you empathize with those who've hurt you? Do you grapple with an excess of empathy that leaves you drained? Why is it often hardest to muster empathy for those we love? These questions might be what led you to...

At a time when respect is widely touted as an attitude of central moral importance, contempt is often derided as a thoroughly nasty emotion inimical to the respect we owe all persons. But while contempt is regularly dismissed as completely disvaluable,...

This book aims to pinpoint the connection feelings have with behaviour - a connection that, while clear, has never been fully explained. Following William James, Laird argues that feelings are not the cause of behaviour but rather its consequences; the...

Emotional Exorcism: Expelling the Four Psychological Demons That Make Us Backslide offers a powerful, research-grounded model and tools to help us overcome our problems without beating up on ourselves for backsliding to negative habits. Dr. Holly Hunt's...

The Meaning of Grief seeks to capture the dramatic nature of grief by reconstructing the common story of people who have grieved. It provides a holistic approach to understanding the wisdom of experience in the context of human life. The book offers an...

On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in the emotions, which they understood as complex judgments about what we regard as valuable in our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633889361Author Alby EliasFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus Books

Whether we like it or not, boredom is a major part of human life. It permeates our personal, social, practical, and moral existence. It shapes our world by demarcating what is engaging, interesting, or meaningful from what is not. It also sets us in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801342094Author Stewart HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Devon House PressPublisher Devon House PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Under what circumstances can love generate moral reasons for action? Are there morally appropriate ways to love? Can an occurrence of love or a failure to love constitute a moral failure? Is it better to love morally good people? This volume explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647138974Author Ashley JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Jordan AlexoPublisher Jordan AlexoWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societies-or so the common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural condemnation. Envy's bad reputation is not completely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037019Author Richard LayardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 253gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm...

In its early decades, Israel's citizens had to cope not only with security challenges, but also with the emotional burden that accompanied them. The book unpacks the history of citizens' emotions-an analysis of the reports about how they felt and of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734171716Author Laura ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Cedar & Sage PressPublisher Cedar & Sage PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432971144Author Isabel ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Heinemann Library, Div of Reed ElsevierPublisher Heinemann Library, Div of Reed Elsevier

Many people experience poor mental health and emotional wellbeing due to issues they face in life and struggle to resolve them not because they can't but because they don't know how. How to Transform Your Life With IMPACT shows you how by taking you...

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Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development combines insights of developmental psychology and cultural anthropology to examine the development of moral thinking. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of...

Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect Imagery Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist...

Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist...

On Emotional Presentation, first published in German in 1917, contains the Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong's clearest and most-developed account of the emotions and their relation to values. In this work, which was written toward the end of his...

Stress is an inevitable part of everyday life. Sometimes we manage it well. Other times, not so much. But understanding the role of stress in our overall health and wellness is essential to taking it head-on. It's not just that stress can take over our...

We have all been told, at one time or another, to "never give up hope." It's a common injunction to children, but as we grow older, sustaining hope becomes more challenging, particularly in a world we come to see as often frightening, dark, and unjust...

Recent years have witnessed a revival of research in the interplay between cognition and emotion. The reasons for this renaissance are many and varied. In the first place, emotion theorists have come to recognise the pivotal role of cognitive factors in...

In Evolved Emotions, Glenn Weisfeld analyzes a comprehensive list of universal emotions, detailing their elicitors, affects, behavioral tendencies, expressions, visceral changes, neural mediations, development over the life span, and presence in other...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A powerful, lucid, deeply empathic exploration of the legacy of generational trauma' Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance'Atlas's heady and beautiful book offers much insight, as well as tools for beginning to unpack the...

Whether we like it or not, boredom is a major part of human life. It permeates and affects our personal, social, practical, and moral existence. It shapes our world by demarcating the interesting and the meaningful from that which is not. And it sets us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628088885Author Marta N PurcellaFormat HardbackPage Count 119Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 388g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620811948Author Corey D LoganFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 352g

Do you ever feel as if you're being swept along by emotions, struggling helplessly against torrents of anger, shame, or stress? According to Dr. Erin Olivo, stress and the related problems it causes all stem from distressing emotions. But when you're...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568332505Author Lucy DanielsFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 1007gDimensions(mm) 247mm * 169mm *...

In the aftermath of suicide, friends and family face a long road of grief and reflection. With a sympathetic eye and a firm hand, Harold Ivan Smith searches for the place of the spirit in the wake of suicide. He asks how one may live a spiritual life as...

Under what circumstances can love generate moral reasons for action? Are there morally appropriate ways to love? Can an occurrence of love or a failure to love constitute a moral failure? Is it better to love morally good people? This volume explores...

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432971151Author Isabel ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Heinemann Library, Div of Reed ElsevierPublisher Heinemann Library, Div of Reed Elsevier