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The challenges in teaching this course include engaging students with a very wide range of relevant backgrounds (from none, to extensive understanding of neuroscience) and the difficult task of linking theoretical constructs in emotion to neural activity as well as to social and cultural phenomena. Essentially,
Emotion and Motivation, Fourth Edition answers students' questions about why we have emotions and what motivates our behaviors through current research in the field. This text makes the study of emotions and motivation compelling at the biological level, and also directly and personally relevant.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: Defining Emotion and Motivation
- Chapter 2: The Evolution of Emotion and Motivation
- Chapter 3: Culture and Emotion
- Chapter 4: What Activates Motivation and Emotion?
- Chapter 4: Expression in the Face, Postiure, and Voice
- Chapter 6: Emotion, Motivation, and the Central Nervous System
- Chapter 7: The Physiology of Emotion and Motivation
- Chapter 8: Emotional and Motivational Development
- Chapter 9: Emotion on Relationships and Society
- Chapter 10: Emotion, Motivation, and Cognition
- Chapter 11: The Value of Negative Emotions
- Chapter 12: Happiness and the ositive Emotions
- Chapter 13: Emotion in Clinical Psychology
- Chapter 14: Goal-Setting and Self-Control
- Chapter 15: Emotion Regulation
About the author
Michelle (Lani) Shiota received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D from UC Berkeley in Social and Personality Psychology. She completed her post-doctoral training in the Berkeley Psychophysiology Lab. She is an Associate professor of social psychology at Arizona State University where she founded her lab, Shiota Psychophysiology Laboratory for Affective Testing (SPLAT lab) which investigates several basic questions regarding emotion, using a multi-method approach that integrates physiological, behavioral, cognitive, narrative, and questionnaire measures of emotional experience and its implications for social interaction.
Sarah Rose Cavanagh is the Senior Associate Director for Teaching and Learning at the Simmons University Center for Faculty Excellence, where she also serves as an Associate Professor of Practice in Psychology. She received her B.A. from Boston University in Psychology and Women's Studies and then went on to get her M.S. and Ph.D. from Tufts University in Experimental Psychology. Her research focuses on the intersections of emotions, motivation, and learning. As a new co-author of this text, she adds important research on Motivation, a subject that is taught in conjunction with emotion in many college courses. Cavanagh's contribution will help us to compete with Reeve, Understanding Emotion & Motivation.
Summary
Emotion and Motivation, Fourth Edition, blends unprecedented scholarship with a friendly and accessible writing style that makes the study of these subject areas both interesting and relevant.
This text includes both classic and cutting-edge research to reflect thinking about the area of emotion and motivation. Emotion and Motivation, Fourth Edition, encourages critical thinking by openly tackling ongoing controversies, contradictory findings, methodological limitations, and even replication failures in a balanced and constructive way. While highly rigorous, the text is also student-friendly, with a light, humorous tone. With real-world stories and an intuitive structure, Emotion and Motivation addresses questions undergraduates are most likely to ask: Why do we have emotions? How do they affect our lives? What motivates human behavior? How can we improve well-being?
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The text uses a style of writing that seeks to engage the students with a friendly, conversational tone, without sacrificing scholarly content, and integrates motivation and emotion for a course aiming to teach both."
- Brent Dean Robbins, Point Park University
