mental state
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s brought on by
neurophysiological
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changes, variously associated with
thought
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s,
feelings
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pleasure
Pleasure is experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. It is closely related to value, desire and action: humans and other conscious animals find ...
Jesse Prinz
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Prinz works primarily in the p ...
Klaus Scherer
Klaus Rainer Scherer (born 1943) is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva. He is a specialist in the psychology of emotion.
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Ronald de Sousa
Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes ( ; born 1940) is a Swiss-born Canadian philosopher and academic. He is an emeritus professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto, which he joined in 1966.
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De Sousa possesses both UK ...
(born 1940) – English–Canadian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of emotions, philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology
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Jonathan H. Turner
Jonathan H. Turner (born September 7, 1942), is a professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside.
Biography
After receiving his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, since the academic year 1969–1970 he has been at UCR. He has b ...
(born 1942) – American sociologist from the University of California, Riverside, who is a general sociological theorist with specialty areas including the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology
* Dominique Moïsi (born 1946) – authored a book titled ''The Geopolitics of Emotion'' focusing on emotions related to globalization
See also
* Affect measures
* Affective forecasting
* Affective neuroscience
* Coping
* Emotion and memory
* ''Emotion Review''
* Emotional intelligence
* Emotional isolation
* Emotionally focused therapy
* Emotions in virtual communication
* Facial feedback hypothesis
* Fuzzy-trace theory
* Group emotion
* Homeostatic feeling
* Moral emotions
* Social sharing of emotions
* Two-factor theory of emotion
* Kuleshov effect
References
Further reading
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* Glinka, Lukasz Andrzej (2013) ''Theorizing Emotions: A Brief Study of Psychological, Philosophical, and Cultural Aspects of Human Emotions''. Great Abington: Cambridge International Science Publishing. .
* Dana Sugu & Amita Chaterje "Flashback: Reshuffling Emotions" , ''International Journal on Humanistic Ideology'', Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring–Summer 2010.
* Cornelius, R. (1996). ''The science of emotion''. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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* González, Ana Marta (2012). ''The Emotions and Cultural Analysis''. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
* Paul Ekman, Ekman, P. (1999). Basic Emotions . In: T. Dalgleish and M. Power (Eds.). ''Handbook of Cognition and Emotion''. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Sussex, UK:.
* Nico Frijda, Frijda, N.H. (1986). ''The Emotions''. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme an Cambridge University Press
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* Hogan, Patrick Colm. (2011) ''What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Hordern, Joshua. (2013) ''Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* LeDoux, J.E. (1986). "The neurobiology of emotion". Chap. 15 in J.E. LeDoux & W. Hirst (Eds.) ''Mind and Brain: dialogues in cognitive neuroscience''. New York: Cambridge.
* Mandler, G. (1984). ''Mind and Body: Psychology of emotion and stress''. New York: Norton Wayback Machine *
* Plutchik, R. (1980). "A general psychoevolutionary theory of emotion". In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), ''Emotion: Theory, research, and experience: Vol. 1. Theories of emotion'' (pp.3–33). New York: Academic.
* Roberts, Robert. (2003). ''Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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* Solomon, R. (1993). ''The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life''. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
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* b:Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience/Motivation and Emotion, Wikibook Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience