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Emotion and Consciousness

• Edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paula M. Niedenthal, Piotr Winkielman

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• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 420
• Published by: Guilford Press
• Publication Date: 2nd March 2007
• ISBN: 978-1-59385-458-4

About the Book

Presenting state-of-the-art work on the conscious and unconscious processes involved in emotion, this integrative volume brings together leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. Carefully organized, tightly edited chapters address such compelling questions as how bodily responses contribute to conscious experience, whether "unconscious emotion" exists, how affect is transmitted from one person to another, and how emotional responses are produced in the brain. Bringing a new level of coherence to lines of inquiry that often remain disparate, the book identifies key, cross-cutting ideas and themes and sets forth a cogent agenda for future research.

Reviews

'The chapters in this wonderful book are informative, intelligent, and occasionally startling. Emotion and consciousness are two of psychology's hottest topics, and this book explores their collision. As you might expect, the bang is a big one.' - Daniel Gilbert, PhD

'This book represents a blossoming-out of a number of important trends in thinking about emotions. Major issues related to unconscious and conscious processes in emotion -such as cognition - emotion interactions, affect induction, and embodiment in perception and thought - are examined in the context of closely reasoned and expertly executed research programs. Several chapters present promising developments of new research streams, substantially adding to insight and knowledge. Brimming with information, this is a well-written, challenging text for graduate-level students interested in current research areas and controversies in the field.' - Nico H. Frijda, PhD

'Although agreement remains scarce, emotions - both conscious and unconscious - are attracting unprecedented attention in human psychology. A banquet of theoretical perspectives is well shared in this stimulating volume, whose contributors seek to penetrate the scientific and philosophical mysteries of affective experience.' - Jaak Panksepp, PhD

'Remarkable... A rich tapestry that includes crucial summaries of state-of-the-science research and theorizing and the articulation and interrogation of key assumptions in the field. The editors did a fine job of bringing coherence to a quite heterogeneous collection of theories, concepts, methods, and research findings by insisting that each chapter explicitly consider the same set of questions and by providing a detailed roadmap to the contributions that in itself is a model of what the new science of emotion can achieve.' - Choice

Table of Contents

Barrett, Niedenthal, Winkielman, Introduction. Part I: Cognition and Emotion. Niedenthal, Barsalou, Ric, Krauth-Gruber, Embodiment in the Acquisition and Use of Emotion Knowledge. Phelps, The Interaction of Emotion and Cognition: Insights From Studies of the Human Amygdala. Gray, Schaefer, Braver, Most, Affect and the Resolution of Cognitive Control Dilemmas. Part II: Unconscious Emotional Processing: Perception of Visual Stimuli. Lundqvist, Öhman, Caught by the Evil Eye: Nonconscious Information Processing, Emotion, and Attention to Facial Stimuli. de Gelder, Nonconscious Emotions: New Findings and Perspectives on Nonconscious Facial Expression Recognition and its Voice and Whole-body Contexts. Atkinson, Adolphs, Visual Emotion Perception: Mechanisms and Processes. Part III: Unconscious Emotional Behavior. Owren, Rendall, Bachorowski, Conscious and Unconscious Emotion in Nonlinguistic Vocal Communication. Bouton, Behavior Systems and the Contextual Control of Anxiety, Fear, and Panic. Part IV: The Experience of Emotion. Charland, Emotion Experience and the Indeterminacy of Valence. Barrett, Feeling is Perceiving: Core Affect and Conceptualization in the Experience of Emotion. Part V: Perspectives on the Conscious–Unconscious Debate. Smith, Neumann, Emotion Processes Considered from the Perspective of Dual-Process Models. Scherer, Unconscious Processes in Emotion: The Bulk of the Iceberg. Winkielman, Berridge, Wilbarger, Emotion, Behavior, and Conscious Experience. Prinz, Emotions, Embodiment, and Awareness. Clore, Storbeck, Robinson, Centerbar, Seven Sins in the Study of Unconscious Affect.

About the Author(s)

Edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Department of Psychology, Boston College, USA; Paula M. Niedenthal, PhD, Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Psychology, Blaise Pascal University, France; and Piotr Winkielman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California - San Diego, USA.

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