Emotion

by Michelle N. Shiota, James W. Kalat

Emotion, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and integrated survey of the field of affective science. The text covers the major theories of emotion in detail and reviews both classic and cutting-edge research on emotional processes from various subdisciplines. The authors' thoughtful engagement with ongoing controversies, contradictory findings, methodological limitations, and replication failures encourages critical thinking. While highly rigorous, the text is also student-friendly, with a light, humorous tone, real-world stories, and an intuitive structure. Emotion, Third Edition, addresses the questions undergraduates are most likely to ask: Why do we have emotions? How do they affect our lives? and How can we improve emotional well-being?

Genres: Psychology, Emotion

576 pages, Paperback

First published March 2, 2006

Reviews

[Lizzy Li · Rating 2 out of 5]

rough. so lengthy.

why are the chapter summaries so vague and irrelevant? please give me some more coherent thoughts about what was actually covered, and not applications and further implications. introducing new ideas makes it no longer a summary of the chapter!

[Selmoore Codfish · Rating 5 out of 5]

The authors succeed in their goal: Write a sophomore level psych book on emotion that provides a greater introduction to the field of psychology. The reading level is appropriate for sophomores and builds on what they should know.
Having read Kalat's advanced book on psycho-biology I had seen some of the information before. However, since this book focused on emotion, there was quite a bit on useful information. I found it added to the discussion about the relation between emotion and coping mechanisms. Also, it added to the disucssion about how mood affects creativity and effective decision making.
The book is good for sophomores because it previews discussions in other areas of psychology such as lifespan development, cognitive psychology and psychobiology.
I really like Kalat's use of thought provoking questions at the end of each chapter. Also, in this text he gives possible mini-experiments/projects that students can do.

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مهم ونسيج وحده في موضوعه -مما قرأت حتى الآن- لكني لم أقرأ منه إلا ما يوافقني من انفعالات. أنانية؟ قلة صبر؟ ليكن :)

[Marlan Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid A in the class. And barely read the book (and what I did was vastly more than I needed to).