Causes and Consequences of Feelings

Klappentext This engaging, scholarly book by one of the leading social psychologists in the world reviews the rapidly growing body of research on the antecedents and consequences of positive and negative affect. Starting with studies that identify the dimensions along which affective experience can be located, it considers whether good and bad feelings are opposite ends of a bipolar continuum or are independent dimensions. It then looks at the many conditions that can determine whether an experience is felt as pleasant or unpleasant and examines how feelings can influence thought, memory, and action. For example, the author shows how the associative perspective accounts for mood effects on memory and why creativity is often enhanced by positive feelings. He also discusses how emotion arousal can affect the accuracy of eyewitness testimony and how good is the evidence that unusually hot weather might promote violent crimes. Zusammenfassung Although is is well known that people's feelings can often influence what they remember! think and do! investigations of these effects are relatively new. Summarizing much of what has been learned in past decades! this book looks at how feelings arise! and how they can affect thought and actions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Feelings: their nature and causes; 3. More on the causes of feelings: appraisals and bodily reactions; 4. Influences of feelings on memory; 5. Personal traumas and memory; 6. Feeling effects on judgments and decision making; 7. Feelings, persuasion, and motivation; 8. Feelings and social behavior.

Product details

• Authors: Leonard Berkowitz, Leonard (University of Wisconsin Berkowitz, Berkowitz Leonard
• Assisted by: Antony Manstead (Editor), Keith Oatley (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9780521633253
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63325-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Studies in Emotion and Social; Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology