Books in the Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction series

This book draws upon scholarly research to address, explain and legitimize the role that emotion plays in everyday interaction and in many of the pressing social, moral, and cultural issues that we face today.

What is it that moves and motivates us in our lives? Martijn van Zomeren proposes that social relationships are at the essence of this key question and, in a fascinating investigation into human motivation, he develops a novel and integrative psychological theory termed 'selvations theory'. The theory suggests that we are essentially relational beings that seek to regulate relationships in response to felt changes in our network of relationships (selvations). However, we need to do this in culturally appropriate ways and this is where our culturally construed self comes to be of use. From Self to Social Relationships constitutes a powerful argument about human essence, integrating major theories in and around psychology, which has strong implications for the study and practice of social motivation.

This thoughtful and beautifully written book demonstrates compellingly that emotions are central to personality development across the lifespan. Carol Magai and Jeannette Haviland-Jones draw on a wealth of textual and film material to forge an original empirical and theoretical analysis of the dynamics of emotion in human development. For its content, the work examines the lives of three mid-century psychologists, Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, and Fritz Perls. Each man adopted a unique stance on the question of emotion in personality and in therapeutic interventions and, tellingly, the therapeutic methods they developed necessarily reflected their own emotional dynamics. Drawing on the most important research in clinical, social, and personality psychology, the authors reveal the pervasive influence of emotional organization in the lives of these individuals. Having presented a new approach to personology, autobiography, autobiography, narrative studies, psychotherapy and the theory of emotions on its publication in 2002, this book is essential reading.

This book, first published in 1997, offers an approach to human behavior which relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. He evokes the detail of 'human reality', with an emphasis on the role of the emotions in the social bond.

Keith Oatley draws on theories from psychology, philosophy and linguistics, as well as writings from other social sciences, to show how emotions are central to any understanding of human actions and mental life.

This series addresses the nature and expression of emotion and the process of social interaction. It is intended to be an easily identifiable resource for scholars and students with shared mathodological concerns whose work derives from historically separate research traditions in psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, etiology, sociology, linguistics, and semiotics.

Andrew Cuthbertson provides an English translation of the great French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne's Mecanisme de la physionomie humaine.

Bringing together thirteen original papers by leading American and British researchers, this volume reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation analysis. Through theoretical and methodological foundations, this collection examines organisation of preference, topic, non-vocal activities, and apparently spontaneous responses such as laughter and applause.

What are 'emotions'? Drawing together the threads of current research on the nature and funactions of emotional expression, of physiological reactions, and of emotional experience, this book offers a balanced survey of facts and theory. Nico Frijda discusses the motivational and neurophysiological preconditions for emotions, and the ways in which emotions are regulated by the individual.

This 1990 book provides an examination of research and theory into the role that emotion plays in influencing social behavior. The contributors investigate a number of important domains such as aggression, altruism, romantic attraction, and consumer behavior and the role that affect plays in instigating and regulating these behaviors.

Offers new insights on the fundamental links between affect and cognition, and reports recent research and theories illustrating how affective states can play a subtle and often subconscious role in guiding peoples' thoughts, memories, judgments, attitudes and behaviors in social situations.

This volume presents, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on the role of nonverbal behavior in social interaction. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the reciprocal influences between nonverbal behavior and social variables.

In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection. The book seeks to demonstrate how the core concepts and relationships invoked by accommodation theory are available for addressing altogether pragmatic concerns.

In Speaking From the Heart Professor Shields draws on examples from everyday life, contemporary culture and comprehensive research, to reveal how culturally shared beliefs about emotion shape our identities as women and men. This fascinating exploration of gender and emotion shows how emotion affects our everyday lives.

This book is a collection of essays on communication written by leading scholars in honor of the work of the late Gregory Bateson, one of the most provocative social scientists of the twentieth century. All chapters were written by scholars whose own work has been inspired by Bateson and his theory of communication.

This 1993 volume brings together critical analysis of the phenomenon called interpersonal expectation - a sub-area of social psychology that studies how the expectations of one person affects the behavior of another in an interactive setting.

Although is is well known that people's feelings can often influence what they remember, think and do, investigations of these effects are relatively new. Summarizing much of what has been learned in past decades, this book looks at how feelings arise, and how they can affect thought and actions.

When do people call someone emotional? Why is it generally accepted that women are emotional and men are not? What are the actual differences between men and women with regard to emotions? Leading scholars seek to address these questions and to disentangle the complex relationship between gender and emotion.

It is generally accepted that emotions influence beliefs but until recently little research has been done on exactly how this effect takes place. This important new book explores the relationship between emotions and beliefs from a number of psychological perspectives and seeks to develop coherent theoretical principles for understanding it.

In this fascinating book, Anna Wierzbicka explores human emotions and how they are expressed in faces, bodies, and modes of speech; and she places the findings into both worldwide and culture-specific contexts.

This book provides an overview of status of emotion theory by means of views on the nature of feelings and emotions, basic processes involved in feelings and emotions, the role of pleasure, feelings and emotions in a sociocultural context, and the relationships between emotions and morality.

Hogan argues that the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. He concludes with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.

Identity and Emotion, first published in 2001, focuses on the individual development of identity and the processes involved. By working from emotions and a dynamic systems perspective the book offers an exciting approach to human identity and its development across the lifespan.

Speech most evidently differentiates people from animals, yet obvious links have been found between human and animal non-verbal vocal communication. In this book specialists from several disciplines review the present knowledge on neural substrates of vocal communication, on primate vocal communication, and on precursors and prerequisites of human speech.

This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Kovecses illustrates through detailed cross-linguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect wide-spread metaphorical patterns of thought. These emotion metaphors arise from recurring embodied experiences, one reason why human emotions across many cultures conform to certain basic biological-physiological processes in the human body and of the body interacting with the external world. The view proposed here demonstrates how cultural aspects of emotions, metaphorical language about the emotions, and human physiology in emotion are all part of an integrated system. Kovecses convincingly shows how this integrated system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion.

Emotions play a powerful role in close relationships. Significant progress has been made in understanding how interpersonal emotion dynamics are associated with the development and maintenance of relationships across the lifespan. This book brings together perspectives from leading scholars, and is an important basis for future scientific work.

Gerald C. Cupchik builds a bridge between science and the humanities, arguing that relations between mind and body are analogous to those between subject matter and style in art. His unified emotional phase theory encompasses reactions to meaningful life events and actions, enabling people to realize goals and adapt to challenges.

When people are in a certain mood, whether elation or depression, that mood is often communicated to others. When we are talking to someone who is depressed it may make us feel depressed, whereas if we talk to someone who is feeling self-confident and buoyant we are likely to feel good about ourselves. This phenomenon, known as emotional contagion, is identified here, and compelling evidence for its affect is offered from a variety of disciplines - social and developmental psychology, history, cross-cultural psychology, experimental psychology, and psychopathology.

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

Written by experts in comparative, developmental, social, cognitive and cultural psychology, this book explains how we learn to value the different objects, people and events in our environment from others' emotions. It reveals why some things are so important to us, but not at all to others.