Landmarks in Emotion Research - A Guided Tour of Classic and Contemporary Studies

This unique book guides readers round 50 landmark studies in the psychology of emotion. It explores questions including what gives emotion its distinct emotional quality, whether our faces always reveal what we are feeling, and how we can be in control of our emotions.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Starting points. 2. Differences. 3. Causes. 4. Regulation. 5. Facial expression I: Perceived meanings. 6. Facial expression II: Signalling in social contexts. 7. Interpersonal processes. 8. Group processes. 9. Concepts. 10. Future directions.

About the author

Brian Parkinson is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oxford and has been researching emotion since he was an undergraduate at Manchester University. He has authored more than a hundred chapters and journal articles and he is currently an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emotion Review.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Parkinson, Parkinson Brian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032952970
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295297-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Psychology: emotions, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology