Psychology of Emotion - Paperback

by Paula M. Niedenthal (Author), François Ric (Author)

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science outside of psychology, including neuroscience, psychiatry, biology, genetics, computer science, zoology, and behavioral economics, the field is now often called emotion science or affective science. A subfield of affective science is affective neuroscience, the study of the emotional brain.

This revised second edition of Psychology of Emotion reviews both theory and methods in emotion science, discussing findings about the brain; the function, expression, and regulation of emotion; similarities and differences due to gender and culture; the relationship between emotion and cognition; and emotion processes in groups.

Comprehensive in its scope yet eminently readable, Psychology of Emotion serves as an ideal introduction for undergraduate students to the scientific study of emotion. It features effective learning devices such as bolded key terms, developmental details boxes, learning links, tables, graphs, and illustrations. In addition, a robust companion website offers instructor resources.

Author Biography

Paula M. Niedenthal is Professor of Psychology and director of the Niedenthal Emotions Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research crosses the areas of the social psychology of emotion and the affective neurosciences, and focuses on the ways by which individuals represent and process emotional information.

François Ric is Professor of Psychology and laboratory director at the Université de Bordeaux. His research focuses on the underlying processes of social behaviors, with a special interest in the role of emotions, and in implicit processes.