1st Edition

Perspectives on Anger and Emotion Advances in Social Cognition, Volume Vi

Edited By Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Thomas K. Srull Copyright 1993
216 Pages
by Psychology Press

214 Pages
by Psychology Press

216 Pages
by Psychology Press

In this volume, Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: some are highly cognitive in nature; others are automatic and involuntary. Cognitive and associative mechanisms theoretically come into play at different times in the emotion-cognition sequence. The model he proposes, therefore, integrates theoretical... Read more
Contents: Preface. L. Berkowitz, Towards A General Theory of Anger and Emotional Aggression: Implications of the Cognitive- Neoassociationistic Perspective for the Analysis of Anger and Other Emotions. J.R. Averill, Putting the Social in Social Cognition, with Special Reference to Emotion. G.L. Clore, A. Ortony, B. Dienes, F. Fujita, Where Does Anger Dwell? J.P. Forgas, Affect, Appraisal, and Action: Towards a Multiprocess Framework. P.J. Lang, The Network Model of Emotion: Motivational Connections. H. Leventhal, A Componential, Self Regulative Systems View of Berkowitz's Cognitive Neoassociationistic Model of Anger. L.L. Martin, J.W. Achee, D.W. Ward, T.F. Harlow, The Role of Cognition and Effort in the Use of Emotions to Guide Behavior. K. Oatley, Those to Whom Evil is Done. W.G. Parrott, On the Scientific Study of Angry Organisms. L. Berkowitz, More Thoughts About the Social Cognitive and Neoassociationistic Approaches: Similarities and Differences.

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Wyer, Jr., Robert S.; Srull, Thomas K.

"...attests to the continued seriousness of research and scholarship directed toward the interplay between cognitive and noncognitive mechanisms in the emergence of emotional responses....the volume presents ideas that are important to ponder and is a very worthwhile read."
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