Looks at how good and bad feelings arise, and how they can affect thought and actions.

Explores gender and emotion drawing on examples from everyday life, contemporary culture and comp...

A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion ...

A collection of essays on communication written by leading scholars in honor of the work of the l...

Recent ideas concerning the development of self and identity have stressed the importance of movi...

Landscapes of Emotion is a fascinating look at the cultural construction of emotions, examining h...

There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature, which are bound up with u...

Affective states have a highly important, yet little understood influence on how people think abo...

This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific...

Why do people gesture while speaking? What role does this activity play in verbal exchanges? Whic...

The concept of 'intersubjectivity' has emerged as a common denominator in approaches to infant co...

Offers new insights on the fundamental links between affect and cognition.

Explores gender and emotion drawing on examples from everyday life, contemporary culture and comp...

Identity and Emotion focuses on the individual development of identity and the processes involved.

What are 'emotions'? This book offers a balanced survey of facts and theory.

This book addresses questions about communication and emotion that are important to everyday life.

The theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations underlying and consequences arising fro...

In his important book, first published in 1997, Thomas Scheff offers an approach to researching h...

Andrew Cuthbertson provides an English translation of the great French neurologist Duchenne de Bo...

For ages, women have been considered as the emotional sex. The aim of this book is to investigate...

Brings together critical analysis of the phenomenon called interpersonal expectation a sub-area o...

The concept of intersubjectivity, explicit or implicit, has emerged as a common denominator in ap...

Emotional crises and breakdowns are not things going wrong in individuals' minds: they are distur...

This book constitutes a unique resource for advanced students and researchers in the behavioural ...

Originally published in 1978, this study examines the shortcomings of some theoretical approaches...

A cognitive psychologist who has also trained as a psychotherapist, Keith Oatley is Professor of ...

Emotions cannot be understood independently of the social relationships and groups where they occ...

This reference provides comprehensive coverage of the major perspectivesethological, neurobehavio...

The theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations underlying and consequences arising fro...

These essays reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation an...

This 1993 volume brings together critical analysis of the phenomenon called interpersonal expecta...

This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific...

Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies.

This book is based on a substantial collection of video recordings of everyday medical consultati...

Originally published in 1978, this study examines the shortcomings of some theoretical approaches...

Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imag...

'Oatley provides [a] ... history of modern psychology told through the stories of its most import...

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Keith Oatley is both a novelist and research psychologist. This book is a hybrid text that altern...

Emotions are an inescapable part of the human experience. They motivate actions and reactions, gu...

Why do people like reading and watching detective stories? This book is a detective story, moving...