Psychology: Emotions

Many consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for deliberate acts of ...

The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being serves as the first international review of the current state of this fast-developing area of re...

A stimulating account of the wide range of approaches towards conceptualising emotions in classical Indian philosophical–religious traditions, such...

Many parts of the athlete’s body are important for performance, such as strong muscles and bones; healthy lungs and heart; and several sensory syst...

This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolvin...

Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this book was to explore the interrelations among communication, social cognition and affect. The cont...

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it   Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have us...

What constitutes a good doctor? What makes someone healing? Research consistently shows that the personal attributes and style of the therapist are...

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it   Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have us...

The hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evilCharlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933....

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century Euro...

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century Euro...

'You'll never look at people in quite the same way again. EMOTIONS REVEALED is a tour de force' Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of BLINK'A fas...

Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the cognitive processes invol...

First published in 1991, this book consists of 13 articles that were originally published in the journal Anxiety Research. They address the topic o...

A purposeful guide for cultivating gratitude as a way of life Recent dramatic advances in our understanding of gratitude have changed the question ...

The editors of this volume are committed to the philosophy of treating emotionally disturbed children in the life milieu. Both have been intensely ...

SmartHelp for Good ‘n’ Angry Kids provides the reader with an innovative tool for determining a child’s individual learning strengths, and for pair...

A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytic, and historical perspectives. It be...

Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency....

A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytic, and historical perspectives. It be...

Curiosity has taken a winding path through intellectual history, from Early Christian vice to Enlightenment virtue and beyond. This original volume...

Introducing the notion of boredom into the academic context, Boredom and Academic Work proposes a fresh sociological perspective on boredom and aca...

Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural...

This book discusses different ways in which the cross-roads between emotions and resistance can be theorised. While the sociological field focuses ...

Josh Morris privileges the voices of veterans to argue that returning soldiers need families, friends, and religious communities to listen to their...

Motivation provides an accessible introduction to motivation and emotion, combining classic studies with current research and uses numerous real-wo...

This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to...

Emotions and Belonging in Forced Migration takes a sociology of emotions approach to gain a better understanding of the present situation of forced...

This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it ha...

In 2015, a survey of more than 150,000 students revealed that over 20% of female undergraduates experienced “sexual conduct involving physical forc...

Under what circumstances can love generate moral reasons for action? Are there morally appropriate ways to love? Can an occurrence of love or a fai...

Psychology in both its academic and practical aspects is now at the parting of the ways and the immediate future will determine whether it shall re...