Cognitive Psychology Arena

The Development of Emotional Intelligence

A Case Study

Published November 2010

How do children learn about the expression and meaning of emotions – both happy and sad? This book answers questions on the foundation of emotional intelligence and examines how children become emotionally literate as they are socialised into their family environment from birth to two years of age.…
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Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media

• Edited by Katrin Doveling, Christian von Scheve and Elly A. Konijn.

Published September 2010

The impact of mass media on individuals and society is to a great extent based on human emotions. Emotions, in turn, are essential in understanding how media messages are processed as well as media’s impact on individual and social behavior and public social life. Adopting an interdisciplinary…
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The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper and William D. Crano.

Published May 2010

Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying…
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Cognition & Emotion

Reviews of Current Research and Theories

• Edited by Jan De Houwer, and Dirk Hermans.

Published March 2010

Emotions are complex and multifaceted phenomena. Although they have been examined from a variety of perspectives, the study of the interaction between cognition and emotion has always occupied a unique position within emotion research. Many philosophers and psychologists have been fascinated by the…
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Psychology of Self-Regulation

Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Roy F. Baumeister and Dianne M. Tice.

Published May 2009

The ability to regulate and control our behaviors is a key accomplishment of the human species, yet the psychological mechanisms involved in self-regulation remain incompletely understood. This book presents contributions from leading international researchers who survey the most recent…
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Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan

• By Elizabeth A. Kensinger.

Published December 2008

Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there…
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Emotions

A Social Science Reader

• Edited by Monica Greco, and Paul Stenner.

Published November 2008

Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective life from across the range of the social sciences. Drawing on both theoretical and…
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A General Theory of Emotions and Social Life

• By Warren D. TenHouten.

Published November 2008

Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum of the emotions and analyzes them on the sociological, psychological and neurobiological levels. This…
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Social Relationships

Cognitive, Affective and Motivational Processes

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, and Julie Fitness.

Published May 2008

Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species - our personal relationships are of immense interest to us and are a key factor in achieving happiness and well being. From the moment of birth, humans crave love and intimacy and we devote much energy to creating and maintaining successful…
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Human Emotions

A Sociological Theory

• By Jonathan H. Turner.

Published June 2007

This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, beginning with general sociological principles, moving over important theory construction of social formation and applying this to a detailed and…
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