Feelings and Emotions - The Amsterdam Symposium

Emotions are central to human behavior and experience. Yet scientific theory and research ignored emotions during most of the 20th century. This situation changed dramatically during the last 30 years of that century, which witnessed an upsurge of interest in emotions in a number of disciplines. This book arises from the 24 keynote papers presented at a symposium held in June 2001 that had the same title as this volume. The aim of that meeting was to review the current state of the art of research on emotions from a multidisciplinary perspective. Each chapter is authored by an acknowledged authority in the field. Together they provide an overview of what is currently being studied and thought about emotions, in disciplines ranging from neurophysiology and experimental psychology to sociology and philosophy. Contents
1. Introduction Anthony S. R. Manstead, Nico H. Frijda and A. H. Fischer
Part I. The Nature of Feelings and Emotions: 2. On the passivity of the passions Robert C. Solomon
3. Emotions and rationality Jon Elster
4. Emotions and feelings: a neurobiological perspective Antonio R. Damasio
5. The concept of an evolved fear Arne Ohman and Stefan Wiens
6. Deconstructing emotions for the sake of comparative research Richard A. Shweder
7. From the emotions of conversation to the passions of fiction Keith Oatley
Part II. Basic Psychological Processes in Feelings and Emotions: 8. What we become emotional about Paul Eckman
9. Feelings integrate the central representation of appraisal-driven response organization in emotion Klaus R. Scherer
10. Emotions and action Nico H. Frijda
11. Basic affects and the instinctual emotion system of the brain: the primordial sources of sadness, joy and seeking Jaak Panksepp
12. Exposure effects: an unmediated phenomenon Robert B. Zajonc
13. Feeling states in emotion: functional imaging device Joel S. Winston and Raymond J. Dolan
Part III. Feelings and Emotions: The Place of Pleasure: 14. The affect system: what lurks below the surface of feelings? John Cacioppo, Kyle Smith and Jeff Larsen
15. Unfelt affect and irrational desire: springing from the brain Kent C. Berridge
16. Some perspective on positive feelings and emotions: positive affect facilitates thinking and problem solving Alice M. Isen
17. Pleasure, utility and choice Barbara A. Mellers
Part IV. Feelings and Emotions in Their Sociocultural Context: 18. The development of individual differences in understanding emotion and mind: antecedents and sequelae Judy Dunn
19. Emotional intelligence: what do we know? Peter Salovey, Marja Kokkonen, Paulo Lopes and John D. Mayer
20. Culture and emotion
models of agency as sources of cultural variation in emotion Batja Mesquita and Rose Hazel
21. Emotions norms, emotion work and social order Peggy A. Thoits
Part V. Feelings, Emotions, and Morality: 22. On the possibility of animal empathy Frans B. M. de Waal
23. Emotional gifts and you first micropolitics
niceness in the socioemotional economy Candace Clark
24. Introducing moral emotions into models of rational choice Robert H. Frank
25. Virtue and emotional demeanor Nancy Sherman
Epilogue: 26. Feelings and emotions:where do we stand? Nico H. Frijda, Anthony S. R. Manstead and A. H. Fischer.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Antony S. R. Manstead, University of Cambridge
Edited by: Nico Frijda, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Edited by: Agneta Fischer, Universiteit van Amsterdam