Emotional self-knowledge : how affective skills reveal our values, goals, cares, and concerns / Matt Stichter, Ellen Fridland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stichter, Matt, 1974- author.

Fridland, Ellen, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology, 2398-0567.

Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology, 2398-0567

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (68 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Knowledge of our emotional and bodily states helps us to further know our goals, values, interests, cares, and concerns. The authors first lay out a puzzle as to why bodily and emotional self-knowledge is strongly associated with good mental health and well-being. They solve this puzzle by mapping out connections between bodily states, emotional states, and our goals with an account of emotions as embodied appraisals. Emotions being embodied implies that self-knowledge of our bodily states aids in acquiring knowledge of our emotional states. Emotions as appraisals means that situations are appraised relative to our goals, such that self-knowledge of emotional states aids in acquiring knowledge of our goals, which are not always transparent to us. While emotional self-knowledge can be difficult to acquire, through skilled practice we can improve awareness and knowledge of our emotional and bodily states.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-30783-5

1-009-30787-8

1-009-30785-1

OCLC:

1522005437