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The editors of this volume have selected 24 contributors they regard as among the most outstanding thinkers and writers on emotion and asked them to address 12 fundamental questions; questions that both the editors and the contributors consider central to an understanding of emotion.
Contents
Introduction ; QUESTION 1: ARE THERE BASIC EMOTIONS? ; 1. In the eyes of the beholder ; 2. All emotions are basic ; 3. The basics of basic emotion ; 4. Toward a concept of "Modal Emotions" ; 5. "You're not sick, you're just in love" ; 6. Emotion as an interpretive system ; Afterword ; QUESTION 2: HOW DO YOU DISTINGUISH EMOTIONS? ; 7. On emotion, mood, and related affective constructs ; 8. Moods, emotions, and traits ; 9. Varieties of affect: Emotions and episodes, moods, and sentiments ; 10. Parsing the emotional domain from a developmental perspective ; 11. Distinctions among emotions, moods, and temperamental qualities ; 12. The stable and unstable in emotion ; 13. Basic emotions ramify widely in the brain, yielding many concepts that cannot be distinguished unambiguously ... yet ; 14. Emotions, moods, traits, and temperaments: Conceptual distinctions and empirical findings ; Afterword ; QUESTION 3: WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF EMOTIONS? ; 15. Emotions are many splendored things ; 16. Why emotions are felt ; 17. Emotions are functional, most of the time ; 18. Human emotions: A functional view ; 19. A phylogenetic view ; 20. Distinguishing functional from dysfunctional affective responses ; 21. Responses ; QUESTION 4: HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN EVIDENCE OF UNIVERSALS IN ANTECEDENTS OF EMOTION? ; 22. It's a small world, but a large stage ; 23. Antecedent events and emotion metaphors ; 24. Some reasons to expect universal antecedents of emotion ; 25. Universal antecedents of the emotions ; 26. Evidence for both universality and cultural specificity of emotion elicitation ; 27. Elicitation ; QUESTION 5: WHAT ARE THE MINIMAL COGNITIVE PREREQUISITES FOR EMOTION? ; 28. Why emotions require cognition ; 29. Levels of thought and levels of emotion ; 30. Emotions require cognitions, even if simple ones ; 31. Answer - None: Cognition is one of four types of emotion activating systems ; 32. Systems ; 33. Appraisal: The long and short of it ; 34. Cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain ; 35. A proper distinction between affective and cognitive process is essential for neuroscientific progress ; 36. An emotion's occurrence depends on the relevance of an event to the organism's goal/need hierarchy ; 37. Afterword ; QUESTION 6: IS THERE EMOTION-SPECIFIC PHYSIOLOGY? ; 38. Complexities in the search for emotion-specific physiology ; 39. Three fundamental emotion systems ; 40. Emotion-specific physiology activity: Don't forget about CNS physiology ; 41. The search for autonomic specificity ; 42. The clearest physiological distinctions between emotions will be found among the circuits of the brain ; 43. Afterword ; QUESTION 7: CAN WE CONTROL OUR EMOTIONS? ; 44. Emotions unbecoming and becoming ; 45. The degree of emotional control depends on the kind of personal system involved ; 46. Emotional control: Variations and consequences ; 47. Afterword ; QUESTION 8: CAN EMOTIONS BE NONCONSCIOUS? ; 48. Why emotions are never unconscious ; 49. Emotional processing, but not emotions, can occur unconsciously ; 50. Evidence for nonconscious emotions ; 51. Afterword ; QUESTION 9: WHAT IS THE RELATION BETWEEN EMOTION AND MEMORY? ; 52. Some relations between emotions and memory ; 53. The past and the present in emotion ; 54. Memory versus emotional memory in the brain ; 55. Subjectivity may have evolved in the brain as a simple value-coding process that promotes the learning of new behaviors ; 56. Afterword ; QUESTION 10: HOW DO INDIVIDUALS DIFFER IN EMOTION-RELATED ACTIVITY? ; 57. Honoring biology in the study of affective style ; 58. Personality dimensions and emotion systems ; 59. Individualized differences in emotion ; 60. Broad dimensions of temperament and personality ; 61. Afterword ; QUESTION 11: WHAT DEVELOPS IN EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT? ; 62. Two aspects of emotional development: Expression and elicitation ; 63. Experience and understanding of emotions, relationships, and membership in a particular culture ; 64. Particular Culture ; 65. Intersystem connections ; 66. Meaning and emotional development ; 67. Lots of "stuff" ... especially mind "stuff" that emerges from brain "stuff" ; 68. Emotional development: Changes in reactivity and self-regulation ; 69. Afterword ; QUESTION 12: WHAT INFLUENCES THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF EMOTION? ; 70. I feel, therefore I am - I think ; 71. Why emotions vary in intensity ; 72. Emotional experience is an output of, not a cause of, emotional processing ; 73. Evolution constructed the potential for subjective experience within the neurodynamics of the mammalian brain ; 74. The vicissitudes of mood: A schematic model ; 75. Afterword ; Epilogue ; References ; Index
