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Emotion and adaptation, Richard S. Lazarus

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-519) and index

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Emotion and adaptation

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Richard S. Lazarus

In this work, Richard Lazarus offers a treatment of the psychology of emotion, its role in adaptation, and the issues that must be addressed to understand it. The work provides a complete theory of emotional processes, explaining how different emotions are elicited and expressed, and how the emotional range of individuals develops over their lifetime. The author's approach puts emotion in a central role as a complex, patterned, organic reaction to both daily events and long-term efforts on the part of the individual to survive, flourish, and achieve. In his view, emotions cannot be divorced from other functions--whether biological, social, or cognitive--and express the intimate, personal meaning of what individuals experience. As coping and adapting processes, they are seen as part of the ongoing effort to monitor changes, stimuli, and stresses arising from the environment. After defining emotion and discussing issues of classification and measurement, Lazarus turns to the topics of motivation, cognition, and causality as key concepts in this theory. Next he looks at individual emotions, both negative and positive, and examines their development in terms of social influences and individual events. Finally, he considers the long-term consequences of emotion on physical health and well-being, and the treatment and prevention of emotional dysfunction. --From publisher's description

About Emotion : The Place of emotion in psychology -- The Retreat from radical behaviorism and the rise of cognitivism -- Perspectives on emotion -- The Adaptational encounter as the proper context of emotion -- The Issues and tasks of a theory of emotion -- The Theory in an nutshell -- Issues of Research, Classification, and Measurement : The Variables of emotion -- Emotions as categories or dimensions -- Universals in the emotional response -- A Working emotion classification systemThe Cognitive-Motivational-Relational Theory : The Person- envionment Relationship, Motivation and coping : The Rational for a relational theory -- The Motivational theory -- The Motivational principle -- Emotion as a process -- Coping -- Person-environment relationships bearing on emotions -- Cognition and Emotion : Rationale and a bit of history -- Appraisal -- How meaning is achieved -- Issues of Causality : Overlaps and distinctions among the constructs of mind -- Causality in the emotion process -- Contextualism and mechanism in emotion theory -- Three issues about the causal role of cogition -- Biological universals and sociocultural viability in the emotion process -- Emotion as system of interdependent variables and processesIndividual emotions : Goal incongruent (negative) emotions : Anger -- Fright-anxiety -- Guilt-shame -- Sadness -- Envy-Jealousy -- Disgust -- Goal Congruent (Positive) and problematic emotions : Happiness/joy -- Pride -- Love/affection -- Relief -- Problematic emotionsEmotional Development : Individual development : Approaches to the study of mother-infant relationships -- Theories of emotional development -- Temperament as a biological factor -- Learning and emotional development -- Research and thought on cognitive-emotional development -- Overview of the development of the emotion process -- Social Influence : The Sociocultural outlook -- Society, culture, and the individual -- Forms of social influence -- Culture and emotion -- Social structure and emotion