Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanley, Hiram Miner

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling" by Hiram M. Stanley is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The work examines the psychological concept of feeling from a biologic and evolutionary perspective, analyzing its origins and development through introspective studies. The author expresses a commitment to exploring these complex and often contentious topics within psychology, acknowledging that he does not adhere to a singular theory but rather presents a series of studies. The opening of the text introduces the foundations of psychological inquiry regarding feeling, emphasizing the discrepancies in psychological manuals and the absence of a unified understanding of this area. Stanley critiques the current state of psychology, noting that significant aspects of feeling are insufficiently explored and often mired in philosophical bias. He argues for a scientific approach to understanding emotions and psychological states, initiating an introspective investigation into feeling, pain, and pleasure, while highlighting the intricate relationship between physiology and psychology. Throughout this introductory portion, Stanley aims to lay the groundwork for a more rigorous analysis of emotions that acknowledges their evolutionary context. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

On the introspective study of feeling

On primitive consciousness

Theories of pleasure-pain

The relation of feeling to pleasure-pain

Early differentiation

Representation and emotion

Fear as primitive emotion

The differentiation of fear

Despair

Anger

Surprise, disappointment, emotion of novelty

Retrospective emotion

Desire

Some remarks on attention

Self feeling

Induction and emotion

The æsthetic psychosis

The psychology of literary style

Ethical emotion

The expression of feeling

Conclusion.

Credits:

Produced by KD Weeks, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 45.9 (College-level). Difficult to read.

Release date is 2018-07-24