Books in the Series in Affective Science series

What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? This book seeks explanations of emotion by considering these questions. A successor to "The Brain and Emotion", it describes the nature, functions, and brain mechanisms that underlie both emotion and motivation.

This volume focuses on the relationship between basic research in emotion and emotional dysfunction in depression and anxiety. Following each chapter is a commentary that raises questions and illuminates connections with other bodies of work. Topics range from stress to behavioural inhibition.

This text, on the research into emotions and psychopathology, examines the state of research and the relationship between emotions and psychopathology. It uses theoretical and research perspectives from disciplines, such as clinical developmental, psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy.

Simons uses the startle reflex as a revealing model for covering how evolved neurophysiology shapes personal experience, patterns of recurrence in actions, and the systems of meaning people collectively create and transmit. Using diverse sources, Simons observes how biology is expressed in culture.