The Nature of Emotion
Fundamental Questions
ISBN13: 9780195089448ISBN10: 0195089448
Paperback, 512 pages
Nov 1994,
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The editors of this unique volume have brought together 24 leading emotion theorists with a wide variety of perspectives to address 12 fundamental questions about the subject.
Table of Contents
Question 1: Are There Basic Emotions?
1.1.
James R. Averill: In the Eyes of the Beholder
1.2.
Paul Ekman: All Emotions are Basic
1.3.
Jaak Panksepp: The Basics of Basic Emotion
1.4.
Klaus R. Scherer: Toward a Concept of "Modal Emotions"
1.5.
Richard A. Shweder: "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love": Emotion as an Interpretive System
1.6.
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson: Afterword
Question 2: How Do You Distinguish Emotions?
2.1.
Richard J. Davidson: On Emotion, Mood, and Related Affective Constructs
2.2.
Paul Ekman: Moods, Emotions, and Traits
2.3.
Nico H. Frijda: Varieties of Affect: Emotions and Episodes, Moods, and Sentiments
2.4.
H.H. Goldsmith: Parsing the Emotional Domain from a Developmental Perspective
2.5.
Jerome Kagan: Distinctions Among Emotions, Moods, an Temperamental Qualities
2.6.
Richard Lazarus: The Stable and Unstable in Emotion
2.7.
Jaak Panksepp: Basic Emotions Ramify Widely in the Brain, Yielding Many Concepts That Cannot Be Distinguished Unambiguously...Yet
2.8.
David Watson and Lee Anna Clark: Emotions, Moods, Traits, and Temperaments: Conceptual Distinctions and Empirical Findings
2.9.
Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman: Afterword
Question 3: What Is the Function of Emotions?
3.1.
James R. Averill: Emotions Are Many Splendored Things
3.2.
Gerald L. Clore: Why Emotions Are Felt
3.3.
Nico H. Frijda: Emotions Are Functional, Most of the Time
3.4.
Robert W. Levenson: Human Emotions: A Functional View
3.5.
Klaus R. Scherer: A Phylogenetic View
3.6.
Lee Anna Clark and David Watson: Distinguishing Functional from Dysfunctional Affective Responses
3.7.
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson: Afterword
Question 4: How Do You Explain Evidence of Universals in Antecedents of Emotion?
4.1.
James R. Averill: It's a Small World, But a Large Stage
4.2.
Paul Ekman: Antecedent Events and Emotion Metaphors
4.3.
Phoebe C. Ellsworth: Levels of Thought and Levels of Emotion
4.4.
Nico H. Frijda: Emotions Require Cognitions, Even if Simple Ones
4.5.
Richard Lazarus: Universal Antecedents of the Emotions
4.6.
Klaus R. Scherer: Evidence for Both Universality and Cultural Specificity of Emotion Elicitation
4.7.
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson: Afterword
Question 5: What Are the Minimal Cognitive Prerequisites for Emotion?
5.1.
Gerald L. Clore: Why Emotions Require Cognition
5.2.
Phoebe C. Ellsworth: Levels of Thought and Levels of Emotion
5.3.
Nico H. Frijda: Emotions Require Cognitions, Even if Simple Ones
5.4.
Carroll E. Izard: Answer--None: Cognition Is One of Four Types of Emotion Activating Systems
5.5.
Richard Lazarus: Appraisal: The Long and Short of It
5.6.
Joseph E. LeDoux: Cognitive-Emotional Interactions in the Brain
5.7.
Jaak Panksepp: A Proper Distinction Between Affective and Cognitive Process Is Essential for Neuroscientific Progress
5.8.
Klaus R. Scherer: An Emotion's Occurrence Depends of the Relevance of an Event to the Organism's Goal/Need Hierarchy
5.9.
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson: Afterword
Question 6: Is There Emotion-Specific Physiology?
6.1.
Richard J. Davidson: Complexities in the Search for Emotion-Specific Physiology
6.2.
Jeffrey A. Gray: Three Fundamental Emotion Systems
6.3.
Joseph E. LeDoux: Emotion-Specific Physiological Activity: Don't Forget About CNS Physiology
6.4.
Robert W. Levenson: the Search for Autonomic Specificity
6.5.
Jaak Panksepp: The Clearest Physiological Distinctions Between Emotions Will Be Found Among the Circuits of the Brain
6.6.
Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman: Afterword
Question 7: Can We Control Our Emotions?
7.1.
James R. Averill: Emotions Unbecoming and Becoming
7.2.
Joseph E. LeDoux: The Degree of Emotional Control Depends on the Kind of Personal System Involved
7.3.
Robert W. Levenson: Emotional Control: Variations and Consequences
7.4.
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson: Afterword
Question 8: Can Emotions Be Nonconscious?
8.1.
Gerald L. Clore: Why Emotions Are Never Unconscious
8.2.
Joseph E. LeDoux: Emotional Processing, but Not Emotions, Can Occur Unconsciously
8.3.
R.B. Zajonc: Evidence for Nonconscious Emotions
8.4.
Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman: Afterword
Question 9: What Is the Relation Between Emotion and Memory?
9.1.
Gordon H. Bower: Some Relations Between Emotions and Memory
9.2.
Richard Lazarus: The Past and the Present in Emotion
9.3.
Joseph E. LeDoux: Memory Versus Emotional Memory in the Brain
9.4.
Jaak Panksepp: Subjectivity May Have Evolved in the Brain as a Simple Value-Coding Process That Promotes the Learning of New Behaviors
9.5.
Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman: Afterword
Question 10: How Do Individuals Differ in Emotion-Related Activity?
10.1.
Richard J. Davidson: Honoring Biology in the Study of Affective Style
10.2.
Jeffrey A. Gray: Personality Dimensions and Emotions Studies
10.3.
Richard Lazarus: Individualized Differences in Emotion
10.4.
Mary K. Rothbart: Broad Dimensions of Temperament and Personality
10.5.
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson: Afterword
Question 11: What Develops in Emotional Development?
11.1.
Linda A. Camras: Two Aspects of Emotional Development: Expression and Elicitation
11.2.
Judy Dunn: Experience and Understanding of Emotions, Relationships, and Membership in a Particular Culture
11.3.
Carroll E. Izard: Intersystem Connections
11.4.
Richard Lazarus: Meaning and Emotional Development
11.5.
Jaak Panksepp: Lots of "Stuff"...Especially Mind "Stuff" That Emerges from Brain "Stuff"
11.6.
Mary K. Rothbart: Emotional Development: Changes in Reactivity and Self-Regulation
11.7.
Richard J. Davidson and Paul Ekman: Afterword
Question 12: What Influences the Subjective Experience of Emotion?
12.1.
James R. Averill: I Feel, Therefore I Am--I Think
12.2.
Gerald L. Clore: Why Emotions Vary in Intensity
12.3.
Joseph E. LeDoux: Emotional Experience Is an Output of, Not a Cause of, Emotional Processing
12.4.
Jaak Panksepp: Evolution Constructed the Potential for Subjective Experience Within the Neurodynamics of the Mammalian Brain
12.5.
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson: Afterword
