Emotion is something we all talk about in everyday conversations, and studies make an implicit assumption that emotions are out there or in there, somewhere in psychological reality waiting to be isolated and dissected. Brian Parkinson looks at emotion in encounters between people, expressed in gesture and movement, talk and silence. He presents a clear and concise overview of research into emotion focusing on cognitive appraisal, bodily changes, action tendencies and expressive displays. This text challenges the idea of emotion as an individual intrapsychic phenomenon, and formulates a...
Emotion is something we all talk about in everyday conversations, and studies make an implicit assumption that emotions are out there or in there, som...
Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast, this text tries to understand emotion from the outside, by examining three everyday social settings in which it operates: the surrounding culture and subculture; the more delimited organization or group; and finally the interpersonal setting.
Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast, this text tries to understand emotion from the outside, by...
