Psychological and Biological Approaches To Emotion

The outgrowth of a University of Chicago conference on the psychological and biological bases of behavior this unique collection of papers integrates the biological consideration of emotion with current psychological approaches. As such it includes studies of the coping process associated with emotion as well as those that focus on the appraisal process giving rise to emotion. The book approaches emotion from cognitive developmental and biological systems and psychopathological perspectives. Theories on the cognitive biological and developmental bases for interpreting representing and reacting to emotional situations are proposed. In addition new studies on issues and questions regarding the roles of cognition language brain lateralization socialization psychopathology and coping with affect are presented.<br>