Engaging with Emotion

ISBN-13: 9783031213977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 255 str.

Cynthia Whissell

Opis

This work informs by encouraging the reader to interact with the text itself and with the literature in the area. It is a learning tool rather than an encyclopaedic presentation of its topic. The writing style is personal, direct and accessible. Citations are employed, but always for specific purposes. Cited materials are made accessible whenever possible by the provision of URLs.Readers learn about emotion and its relationship to brain, body, cognition, memory, and appraisal. They are also introduced to the role of emotion in language and in the fine arts.Readers of Engaging with Emotion will likely be students within the first two years of university or college taking a related course, or those who are interested in learning more about emotion. This book is ideal for adaptation to an online course format as it includes exercises and learning guides. The book uses straightforward and helpful language and examples to avoid frustrating or confusing students, but instead to keep them actively involved with the material in the book, and to help motivated learners learn.

Spis treści

Book on Emotion-Working Outline (C. Whissell)

          ReadMe (Introduction)

1.    Defining Emotion

a.     Dictionary definitions

b.    Use of emotion in early psychology theories

c.     Distinguishing emotion from mood

d.    Distinguishing emotion from personality

e.     A working definition for psychologists

2.    Evolution of Emotion

a.     Darwin’s theory of evolution

b.    Darwin’s theory of emotion

c.     Is there a continuity of emotion between people and animals?

d.    A psycho-evolutionary theory combining Freud’s with Darwin’s theories

e.     Separating emotion from cognition

3.    Development of Emotion

a.     Emotion in the first 6 months

b.    Emotion at age 2

c.     Emotion at age 5

d.    Emotion at age 12

e.     Emotion in developmental theories

4.    Emotion in the Face

a.     Experience versus expression of emotion

b.    Do we “read” our own faces? [facial feedback theory]

c.     Do we “read” the faces of others? [lie to me]

d.    Ekman’s evolutionary theory and FACS

e.     Blended expressions

5.    Emotion in the Body

a.     The nervous system

b.    The autonomic nervous system

c.     The sympathetic nervous system

d.    The parasympathetic nervous system

e.     “Lie” detection and the autonomic nervous system

6.    Emotion in the Brain

a.     A three-level model

b.    The brain stem

c.     The brain core

d.    The grey matter

e.     Examples: addiction and reward systems

7.    Emotion and Memory

a.     The hippocampus

b.    Emotion tagging of memories

c.     Emotion, memory, and aging

d.    Remembering Mr. Smith

e.     Emotion and brain deterioration

8.    Appraisal in Emotion

a.     “Automatized” emotion

b.    “Thought out” emotion

c.     Lazarus theory of appraisal

d.    When does appraisal enter the emotion process?

e.     Emotion is a continuous process

9.    Emotion and Culture

a.     Innate and pancultural aspects

b.    Learned aspects

c.     Display rules

d.    Differences across historical time (diachronous)

e.     Differences among cultures (synchronous)

10. Emotion and Psychopathology

a.     Role of emotion in DSM 5 diagnoses

b.    Emotion and Anxiety

c.     Emotion and Depression

d.    Role of Emotion in psychotherapy

e.     Emotion in Positive Psychology

11. Measuring Emotion

a.     Scales the measure Depression

b.    Scales that measure Anxiety

c.     Scales that measure Aggression

d.    Scales that measure Happiness

e.     Scales that measure Optimism/Pessimism

12. Emotion in Language

a.     Words that describe specific emotions

b.    Words that have emotional connotations

c.     Sentiment analysis systems of different kinds

d.    The Dictionary of Affect in Language

e.     Examples of what the emotional tone of language reveals

13. Emotion in Art

a.     Emotion in music

b.    Emotion in dance

c.     Emotion in poetry

d.    Emotion in writing

e.     Emotion in visual arts

14. Theories of Emotion

a.     Revisiting evolutionary theory (Darwin, Plutchik, Ekman)

b.    Revisiting semantic lexical theory (Osgood, Russell, Whissell)

c.     Categorical approaches to emotion

d.    Dimensional approaches to emotion

e.     Conclusions about emotion

 

Four learning exercises accompany every chapter

1.    Learning objectives

2.    Terminology

3.    Why this citation?

4.    Experiential Learning Elements

 

 

 

O autorze

Cynthia Whissell is an Emeritus Professor (Liberal Arts/Psychology) at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, who is currently teaching part-time. She has been teaching at the University level since 1968, and became interested in emotion in the 1980s. Her research has two main prongs that focus on the quantification of emotion: one addresses the emotional underpinnings of words and another the emotional communication in sounds. The hypothesis underlying these two types of research is that what we say (or what we write) carries emotional as well as cognitive messages, and that the emotional dimensions of Pleasantness and Activation can be used to read the emotional messages. Cynthia has published two books and many research articles, most of these in the area of emotion. She has taught a course in emotion regularly since the mid-1980s. She has also taught emotion online (at a distance). Her second area of interest lies in research design and statistical analysis.