Cognitive Psychology Arena

Attitudes and Attitude Change

An Introductory Overview

• 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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Applying Emotional Intelligence

A Practitioner's Guide

• Edited by Joseph Ciarrochi, and John D. Mayer.

Published January 2007

The explosion of research on emotional intelligence (EI) in the past decade has provided increasing evidence that EI can be measured reliably and can be useful in predicting important outcomes, such as managerial effectiveness and relationship quality. Naturally, people are now asking, "So, how…
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Psychology of Emotion

Interpersonal, Experiential, and Cognitive Approaches

• By Paula M. Niedenthal, Silvia Krauth-Gruber and François Ric.

Published September 2006

This textbook discusses fundamental issues in the definition and measurement of emotion, including: conscious and unconscious processes; the ways in which emotions arise in, and are constrained by, social situations and social processes; the regulation and sharing of emotion and their effects of…
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