Emotion : a biosocial synthesis / Ross Buck, University of Connecticut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buck, Ross, author.

Series:

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series.

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Social aspects.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 448 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emotions suffuse our lives: a symphony of feeling - usually whispering and murmuring in pianissimo but occasionally screaming and shouting in fortissimo crescendo - filling every waking moment and even invading our dreams. We can always be conscious of how happy, sad, annoyed, or anxious we feel, and also of the feelings we have relative to other persons: pride, envy, guilt, jealousy, trust, respect, or resentment. Developments in brain imaging and in capturing nuances of nonverbal display now enable the objective study of emotion and how biologically based primary emotions relate to higher-level social, cognitive, and moral emotions. This book presents an integrated developmental-interactionist theory of emotion, viewing subjective feelings as voices of the genes: an affective symphony composed of dissociable albeit interactive neurochemical modules. These primordial voices do not control, but rather cajole our behavior with built-in flexibility enabling the mindful application of learning, reason, and language.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I A biosocial view of emotion; 1 A developmental-interactionist theory of emotion; The essences of emotion; The biological essence: neurochemical systems; The ecological essence: display, behavior, and communication; Developmental-interactionist theory; Defining motivation and emotion; Three readouts of emotion; Learning about affects: emotional education; Relating emotion and cognition; Defining cognition

Special-purpose versus general-purpose processing systemsThe epistemology of affect; Levels of cognitive processing; Conclusions; A biosocial synthesis of emotion; The primes; The role of communication; The interaction during development; Higher-level emotions: an ecological-systems view; Part II Biological emotions: a readout view; 2 Neurochemical systems: evolution and function; Neurochemical systems: neurotransmission and neuromodulation; Neurochemical systems; Genetic biosynthesis of peptides; Mechanisms of drug action: agonists and antagonists; The evolution of neurochemical systems

The evolutionary antiquity of the neurochemicalsNeurochemicals, protoawareness, and affects; Affects as voices of the genes; Neurochemical systems: structure and function; Small-molecule neurotransmitter systems; The peptide neurohormones; The opiates; Other neuropeptides; Conclusions: emotion and the arousal/arousability of neurochemical systems; 3 Structure of neurochemical systems of emotion; The central nervous system as a hierarchy of neurochemical systems; Emotion I: peripheral physiological arousal; Somatic motor systems; Fight-or-flight versus relaxation; The stress syndrome

Peripheral arousal and subjective emotional experienceConclusions; Emotion II: display and communication; Display; Automatic and voluntary factors in display; Conclusions; Emotion III: subjective experience of affective feelings and desires 1 arousal and reward-punishment mechanisms; Systems of arousal; The hypothalamus; Systems of reward and punishment; Arousal and reward-punishment systems and temperament; Conclusions; Emotion III: subjective experience of affective feelings and desires 2 selfish competition versus prosocial cooperation; Brain systems of subjective emotional experience

Neurochemical emotion systems: meta-analyses of human neuroimaging studiesReptilian emotions: sex and violence; Limbic system emotions: selfish and prosocial; The neocortex; The cerebral hemispheres; Emotional communication and the right hemisphere; Summary; Summary and conclusions; Low and high roads to appraisal; Disconnecting the filter; 4 Attachment: the evolution, development, and neurochemistry of sociality; The evolutionary biology of natural law: the state of nature and the social contract; The social contract; Darwin ́s theory; Communication and the evolution of social organization

Spontaneous, symbolic, and pseudospontaneous communication

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-05337-7

1-316-05574-4

1-316-08175-3

1-316-63560-0

1-316-07465-X

1-316-07939-2

1-139-04982-8

1-316-06993-1

1-316-07229-0

1-316-07702-0