1st Edition
Fifty Years of the Research and theory of R.s. Lazarus An Analysis of Historical and Perennial Issues
By Richard S. Lazarus
Copyright 1998
450 Pages
by
Psychology Press
450 Pages
by
Psychology Press
450 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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A collection of the articles written by the author throughout his extensive career, this book achieves three goals. First, it reprints selected research and theory papers on stress and coping from the 1950s to the present produced by Lazarus under five rubrics: his dissertation; perennial epistemological issues including the revolt of the 1940s and 1950s; his transition from laboratory to field... Read more
Contents: Preface. Prologue: General Introduction: Issues That Make a Lifetime of Research Come Together. Part I: Starting Out With a Bang: My Dissertation. Part II: Why Psychologists Argue: Perennial Epistemological Issues. The Revolt of the 1940s and 1950s: Individual Differences in Motivation and Defense Influence Perception. The Ancient Greeks Started It: Relations Among Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion. The Unconscious. Part III: The Transition From Laboratory to Field Research. Arousing Stress by Motion Picture Films. An Early Field Study. Stress and Coping Theory and Research. Part IV: The Clinical Applications of Stress and Coping. Focus on Denial. Focus on Daily Hassles. Focus on Psychotherapy. Focus on Job Stress. Focus on War and Peace. Part V: Expanding Stress and Coping to the Emotions. The Utility of the Emotions in the Study of Adaptation. Coping in Emotion. Epilogue.
Biography
Richard S. Lazarus
