ABSTRACT
The question ‘how far can emotions be changed?’ lies at the heart of innumerable psychological interventions. Although often viewed as static, changes in the intensity, quality, and complexity of emotion can occur from moment to moment, and also over longer periods of time, often as a result of developmental, social or cultural factors.
Changing Emotions highlights several recent developments in this intriguing domain, and provides a comprehensive guide for understanding how and why emotions change. The chapters are organized into five parts:
• Lifespan Perspective
• Learning Perspective
• Social-Cultural Perspective
• Emotional-Dynamics Perspective
• Intervention Perspective.
In each chapter an internationally renowned scholar presents a concise review of key findings from their own research perspective. The book will be of great interest to researchers in the area of emotion and emotion regulation as well as related fields such as developmental psychology, educational psychology, social, clinical psychology and psychotherapy. It may also be of interest to sociologists, philosophers, and economists interested in learning more about emotions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
Lifespan Perspective
chapter 1|7 pages
How kids keep their cool
part 2|44 pages
Learning Perspective
chapter 10|7 pages
Generalization as a basis for emotional change
chapter 12|8 pages
Preclinical analysis of developmental transitions in the extinction of learned fear
part 3|46 pages
Social-Cultural Perspective
chapter 14|8 pages
From group-based appraisals to group-based emotions
part 4|46 pages
Emotional-Dynamics Perspective
part 5|49 pages
Intervention Perspective