Emotion

Emotion, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and integrated survey of the field of affective science. The text covers the major theories of emotion in detail and reviews both classic and cutting-edge research on emotional processes from various subdisciplines. The authors' thoughtful engagement with ongoing controversies, contradictory findings, methodological limitations, and replication failures encourages critical thinking. While highly rigorous, the text is also student-friendly, with a light, humorous tone, real-world stories, and an intuitive structure. Emotion, Third Edition, addresses the questions undergraduates are most likely to ask: Why do we have emotions? How do they affect our lives? and How can we improve emotional well-being? Integrates cutting-edge research and pop culture references Openly addresses controversies in the field, contradictions among empirical findings, discrepancies between theory and research, limitations of particular studies, and failures to replicate highly prominent findings Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading (primarily engaging and accessible popular-press books written by prominent researchers in emotion) Features a student-friendly style that offers real-world, inside stories about researchers and studies Organized according to the major questions that students have about emotions New to this Edition: Three new chapters: "What Elicits Emotions," "Emotional Expression in the Face, Posture, and Body," and "Emotion in Relationships and Society" A wealth of new research and updated pop-culture references Reorganized, streamlined chapters based around key questions from students' perspectives Instructor resources, including a Test Bank and PowerPoint lecture slides EMOTION CONTENIS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN REFERENCES INDEX