Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Emotions

With this new collection of essays, Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta reverse this trend, reincorporating emotions such as anger, indignation, fear, disgust, joy, and love into research on politics and social protest. The tools of cultural analysis are especially useful for probing the role of emotions in politics, the...

Occasional comedian and full-time worrier Neil Hughes isn't the kind of person you'd expect to write a helpful book.

He's an idiot.

Or, at least, so his Inner Critic is constantly telling him. No wonder he's suffering from anxiety

But somehow, during his nervous bumbling through life, he learned to live with anxiety and escape the unhelpful mental habits he'd picked up along the way.

Oh... and he stumbled on the Meaning of Life, too.

Now he's sharing hilarious real-life stories, inventive fantasy fiction and badly-drawn...

Weaving history, literature, anecdotes, scientific studies, and Masson's own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens over the course of five years, this important book at last gives voice,...

• Are most people happy?
• What are the inner traits of happy people?
• Are extroverts happier than introverts?
• Are men happier than women?
• Does religious faith promote inner peace and joy?
• Does well-being come with being well-off?
• Are happy children more likely...

People have long been interested in the complexities of human beauty, but until recently the science of attractiveness was largely left to poets, playwrights, philosophers, and artists. This book begins the task of providing a scientific look at physical attraction, by offering an overview of scholarly work on physical beauty, culture, evolution and other aspects of human attractiveness.

The Psychology of Physical Attraction begins by discussing the role of evolution in the development of what it means to be 'attractive' in contemporary society. It provides a general...