The rise of consciousness and the development of emotional life / Michael Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Michael, 1937 January 10-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : The Guilford Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory, Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first, infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These ""action patterns"" are not learned, but are readily influenced by temperament and social interactions. With the rise of consciousness, these early competencies become reflected feelings, giving rise to the self-conscious emotions of empathy, envy, and embarrassment, and, later, shame, guilt, and pride. Focusing on typically develop

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Studying Emotional Development

2. Deconstructing Emotions: Elicitors, Action Patterns, and Experiences

3. Multiple Emotions and Moods

4. The Early Emotions

5. The Rise of Consciousness

6. The Transforming Role of Consciousness: Self-Conscious Emotions, Social Relationships, and Mentalism

7. Lying and Deception in Emotional Life

8. The Self-Conscious Emotions

9. Temperament, Emotion, and Stress

10. The Socialization of Emotion

11. Emotional Development Gone Awry

12. The Fugue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4625-1263-1

1-4625-1264-X

OCLC:

859837368