Biology and Emotion

Zusammenfassung The central idea of this book is that biology! and particularly evolution! provide the best starting point for the study of emotion. In particular! it argues that all the conventional properties of emotion! such as expression! feeling and motivation can be considered scientifically and conclusions drawn. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Emotion since Darwin; 2. Releasers and state-dependent reflexes; 3. Purpose and emotion; 4. Expression: a window on the emotions?; 5. Are physiological changes epiphenomena of emotions?; 6. Somatic influences on the emotion?; 7. Optimal foraging and the partial reinforcement effect: a model for the teleonomy of feelings; 8. Do emotions mature or differentiate?; 9. Cognition, learning and emotion; 10. Interaction of the components of emotion; 11. Of mice and men; 12. Biology and emotion: some conclusions; Glossary; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Mcnaughton, Neil McNaughton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.07.1989
• EAN: 9780521319386
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31938-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Problems in the Behavioural Sc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works