emotion: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

A collection of classic philosophical and scientific writings on emotion is Robert C. Solomon (ed.), What Is an Emotion? (2003). Michael Lewis and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones (eds.), Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed. (2000), is an excellent compendium of work in the psychology of emotions. Other thematic approaches are Paul Ekman and Richard Davidson (eds.), The Nature of Emotion (1994); and Keith Oatley and Jennifer Jenkins, Understanding Emotion (1996). Stephen Leighton (ed.), Philosophy and the Emotions (2003); and Robert C. Solomon (ed.), Thinking About Feeling (2003), are collections of philosophical essays on the nature and meaning of emotions. The social structures of emotion are treated in George Mandler, Mind and Body: Psychology of Emotion and Stress (1984); and Rom Harré (ed.), The Social Construction of Emotions (1986). Nathan A. Fox and Richard J. Davidson (eds.), The Psychobiology of Affective Development (1984); and Carolyn Saarni, The Development of Emotional Competence (1999), discuss developmental theories of emotion.

Cognitive and appraisal theories are treated in Andrew Ortony, G. Clore, and A. Collins, The Cognitive Structure of Emotions (1988); and Richard S. Lazarus, Emotion and Adaptation (1994). Alan J. Fridlund, Human Facial Expression: An Evolutionary View (1994); and Paul W. Griffiths, What Emotions Really Are (1997), present evolutionary perspectives on the emotions.

Neuroscientific studies include Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life (1996); Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (1994), and The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (1999); Jaak Panksepp, Affective Neuroscience (1999); Richard Lane, The Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion (1999); and John Cacioppo et al., The Psychophysiology of Emotion (2000).

The relation between emotions and moral values is discussed in Ronald De Sousa, The Rationality of Emotion (1987); Michael Stocker and Elizabeth Hegeman, Valuing Emotions (1999); Simon Blackburn, Ruling Passions (2000); and Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of the Emotions (2001). Other philosophical studies are Jerome Neu, A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing (1999); Richard Wollheim, On the Emotions (1999); Aaron Ben-Zeev, The Subtlety of Emotions (2000); Jon Elster, Alchemies of the Mind (2000); and Robert C. Solomon, Not Passion’s Slave (2003). Jean-Paul Sartre, The Emotions: Sketch of a Theory (1948), is a classic analysis of emotions as strategies.

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Add new Web site: CORE - Emotions. Sep 18, 2024
Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition - The Experience of Emotion. Jul 24, 2024
Add new Web site: The Open University - The amygdala and emotion. Apr 10, 2024
Add new Web site: Psychology Today - Emotions. Jan 05, 2024
Add new Web site: WebMD - What Are the Different Types of Emotions? Nov 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Frontiers - The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory. Aug 18, 2023
Add new Web site: UWA Online - The Science of Emotion: Exploring the Basics of Emotional Psychology. Jun 22, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - The Experience of Emotion. May 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Healthline - Big Feels and How to Talk About Them. Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Understanding Emotions: Origins and Roles of the Amygdala. Oct 27, 2022
Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Theories of Emotion. Sep 02, 2022
Removed media. Nov 09, 2021
Add new Web site: The Nemours Foundation - for Teens - Understanding Your Emotions. Mar 08, 2019
Add new Web site: Verywell Mind - The 6 Types of Basic Emotions and Their Effect on Human Behavior. Mar 08, 2019
Article revised. Apr 17, 2017
Media added. Apr 14, 2016
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Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Emotion. Apr 16, 2013
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - Emotion. Dec 19, 2011
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - What is emotion? Dec 19, 2011
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - List of HumanEmotions. Dec 19, 2011
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Article thoroughly revised and updated. Jul 29, 2009
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