Emotions : a brief history / Keith Oatley.
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Oxford :
Blackwell,
2004.
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| Series: | Blackwell brief histories of psychology.
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Table of Contents:
- Meaning and ambiguity : emotions : signals of what is vital
- Evolution, culture, and a necessary ambivalence : inherited repertoires of emotion built upon by culture and experience
- Medicine for the soul : from epicureans and stoics via the seven deadly sins to cognitive therapy
- Emotions and the brain : accidents, imaging technologies, the new psychopharmacology
- Social histories : emotions and relationships : social goals of aggression, attachment, affiliation, and their mixtures
- Individual histories : emotional development from childhood to maturity
- Emotional disorders : excesses of sadness, anxiety, shame, and anger
- Emotional intelligence : what is it to be emotionally intelligent? Are there skills to learn?