Handbook of Emotions, Fourth Edition

Name: Handbook of Emotions, Fourth Edition
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett (Editor)
ISBN: 9781713529897

Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett (Editor), Michael Lewis (Editor), Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones (Editor)

Narrator: Coleen Marlo, Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 51 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 01/19/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Emotions, Medical, Psychiatry

Synopsis

Recognized as the definitive reference, this handbook brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines to examine one of today's most dynamic areas of research. Coverage encompasses the biological and neuroscientific underpinnings of emotions, as well as developmental, social and personality, cognitive, and clinical perspectives. The volume probes how people understand, experience, express, and perceive affective phenomena and explores connections to behavior and health across the lifespan. Concluding chapters present cutting-edge work on a range of specific emotions.New to This Edition
*Chapters on the mechanisms, processes, and influences that contribute to emotions (such as genetics, the brain, neuroendocrine processes, language, the senses of taste and smell).
*Chapters on emotion in adolescence and older age, and in neurodegenerative dementias.
*Chapters on facial expressions and emotional body language.
*Chapters on stress, health, gratitude, love, and empathy.
*Many new authors and topics; extensively revised with the latest theoretical and methodological innovations.A Choice Outstanding Academic Title© 2016 by The Guilford Press. ℗ 2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

About Lisa Feldman Barrett (Editor)

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, with research appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and is a faculty member at the MGH Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. Dr. Barrett’s research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives, and incorporates insights from anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and the history of psychology. She is the recipient of a Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health, among numerous other awards, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Psychological Science. She was a founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emotion Review and cofounder of the Society for Affective Science. Dr. Barrett has published more than 170 papers and book chapters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nan on June 04, 2024

A handful of useful content. Used for thesis.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on May 14, 2017

Excellent book. Well worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by Juan on September 20, 2021

Absolutely essential if you want to know the new paradigms in the emotions research.......more

Goodreads review by Ogi on March 12, 2020

My ratings of books on Goodreads are solely a crude ranking of their utility to me, and not an evaluation of literary merit, entertainment value, social importance, humor, insightfulness, scientific accuracy, creative vigor, suspensefulness of plot, depth of characters, vitality of theme, excitement......more

Goodreads review by Corey on October 19, 2009

An excellent contemporary reference on the psychology of emotions, with sections on neurology, development, social psychology, personality, cognition, and health.......more

Quotes

"Offering the most comprehensive coverage imaginable, this handbook continues to occupy a unique position in the emotion field. Experts will find it invaluable for keeping current, and novices will find it an appealing and accessible introduction."--Susan T. Fiske, PhD, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University“The fourth edition of Handbook of Emotions once again assembles a brilliant set of chapters from the world’s foremost experts on every aspect of emotion. It is easy to see why this accessible and authoritative compendium has become, and still remains, the bible of the field. An essential resource for researchers and students alike.”--Daniel Gilbert, PhD, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University"[An] excellent (and nearly exhaustive) reference…for emotion scholars in the social sciences and humanities.”, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture Published On: 2019-04-24