Handbook of Affective Sciences

This volume is a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of affective sciences, which now spans several disciplines. The Handbook brings together, for the first time, the various strands of inquiry and latest research in the scientific study of the relationship between the mechanisms of the brain and the psychology of mind. In recent years, scientists have made considerable advances in understanding how brain processes shape emotions and are changed by human emotion. Drawing on a wide range of neuroimaging techniques, neuropsychological assessment, and clinical research, scientists are beginning to understand the biological mechanisms for emotions. As a result, researchers are gaining insight into such compelling questions as: How do people experience life emotionally? Why do people respond so differently to the same experiences? What can the face tell us about internal states? How does emotion in significant social relationships influence health? Are there basic emotions common to all humans? This volume brings together the most eminent scholars in the field to present, in sixty original chapters, the latest research and theories in the field. The book is divided into ten sections: Neuroscience; Autonomic Psychophysiology; Genetics and Development; Expression; Components of Emotion; Personality; Emotion and Social Processes; Adaptation, Culture, and Evolution; Emotion and Psychopathology; and Emotion and Health. This major new volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers that will define affective sciences for the next decade.

Table of Contents:
Contributors Introduction Part I. Neuroscience 1: Richard J. Davidson, Klaus R. Scherer, and H. Hill Goldsmith: Introduction: Neuroscience 2: Richard J. Davidson, Diego Pizzagalli, Jack B. Nitschke, and Ned H. Kalin: Parsing the Subcomponents of Emotion and Disorders of Emotion: Perspectives from Affective Neuroscience 3: Kent C. Berridge: Comparing the Emotional Brains of Humans and Other Animals 4: Kevin S. LaBar and Joseph E. LeDoux: Emotional Learning Circuits in Animals and Humans 5: Antonio R. Damasio, Ralph Adolphs, and H. Damasio: The Contributions of the Lesion Method to the Functional Neuroanatomy of Emotion 6: James L. McGaugh and Larry Cahill: Emotion and Memory: Central and Peripheral Contributions 7: Rebecca Elliot and Raymond J. Dolan Part II. Autonomic Psychophysiology: Fundamental Neuroimaging of Depression: A Role for Medial Prefrontal Cortex 8: Gerhard Stemmler: Introduction: Autonomic Psychophysiology 9: Wilfrid Janig: The Autonomic Nervous System and Its Coordination by the Brain 10: Alfons O. Hamm, Harald T. Schupp, and Almut I. Weike: Motivational Organization of Emotions: Autonomic Changes, Cortical Responses, and Reflex Modulation 11: Robert W. Levenson: Autonomic Specificity and Emotion 12: Gerhard Stemmler: Methodological Considerations in the Psychophysiological Study of Emotion 13: Arne Öhman, Stefan Wiens: On the Autonomaticity of Autonomic Responses in Emotion: an Evolutionary Perspective 14: Kenneth Hugdahl, Kjell M. Stormark: Emotional Modulation of Selective Attention: Behavioral and Psychophysiological Measures Part III. Genetics and Development 15: H. Hill Goldsmith: Introduction: Genetics and Development 16: H. Hill Goldsmith: Genetics of Emotional Development 17: Jerome Kagan: Behavioral Inhibition as a Temperamental Category 18: Judy Dunn: Emotional Development in Early Childhood: a Social Relationship Perspective 19: Claire B. Kopp, Susan J. Neufeld: Emotional Development During Infancy 20: Michael F. Mascolo, Kurt W. Fischer, and Jin Li: Dynamic Development of Component Systems of Emotions: Pride, Shame, and Guilt in China and the United States Part IV. Expression of Emotion 21: Dacher Keltner and Paul Ekman: Introduction: Expression of Emotion 22: Dacher Keltner, Paul Ekman, Gian C. Gonzaga, and Jennifer Beer: Facial Expression of Emotion 23: Klaus R. Scherer, Tom Johnstone, and Gundrun Klasmeyer: Vocal Expression of Emotion 24: Charles T. Snowdon: Expression of Emotion in Nonhuman Animals 25: Keith Oatley: Creative Expression and Communication of Emotions in the Visual and Narrative Arts 26: Alf Gabrielsson and Patrik N. Juslin: Emotional Expression in Music 27: Judy Reilly and Laura Seibert: Language and Emotion Part V. Cognitive Components of Emotion 28: Klaus R. Scherer: Introduction: Cognitive Components of Emotion 29: Phoebe C. Ellsworth and Klaus R. Scherer: Appraisal Processes in Emotion 30: Joseph P. Forgas: Affective Influences on Attitudes and Judgments 31: George Loewenstein and Jennifer S. Lerner: The Role of Affect in Decision Making 32: Kevin N. Ochsner, and Daniel L. Schacter: Remembering Emotional Events: a Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach 33: Tim Dalgleish: Information Processing Approaches to Emotion Part VI. Personality 34: H. Hill Goldsmith and Richard J. Davidson: Introduction: Personality 35: Douglas Derryberry and Marjorie A. Reed: Information Processing Approaches to Individual Differences in Emotional Reactivity 36: Heinz W. Krohne: Individual Differences in Emotional Reactions and Coping 37: Laura L. Carstensen, Susan T. Charles, Derek M. Isaacowitz, and Quinn Kennedy: Emotion and Life-Span Personality Development Part VII. Emotion and Social Processes 38: Peter Salovey: Introduction: Emotion and Social Processes 39: Richard E. Petty, Leandre R. Fabrigar, and Duane T. Wegener: Emotional Factors in Attitudes and Persuasion 40: Mark R. Leary: The Self and Emotion: The Role of Self-Reflection in the Generation and Regulation of Affective Experience 41: Nancy Eisenberg, Sandy Losoya, and Tracy Spinrad: Affect and Prosocial Responding 42: Leonard Berkowitz: Affect, Aggression, and Antisocial Behavior 43: Margaret S. Clark and Ian Brissette: Two Types of Relationship Closeness and Their Influence on People's Emotional Lives Part VIII. Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Affect 44: Paul Rozin: Introduction: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Affect 45: Jonathan Haidt: The Moral Emotions 46: Batja Mesquita: Emotions as Dynamic Cultural Phenomena 47: Robert H. Frank: Adaptive Rationality and the Moral Emotions Part IX. Emotion and Psychopathology 48: Robert M. Post: Introduction: Emotion and Psychopathology 49: Joseph P. Newman and Amanda R. Lorenz: Response Modulation and Emotion Processing: Implications for Psychopathy and Other Dysregulatory Psychopathology 50: Terence A. Ketter, Po W. Wang, Anna Lembke, and Nadia Sachs: Physiological and Pharmacological Induction of Affect 51: Scott L. Rauch: Neuroimaging and the Neurobiology of Anxiety Disorders 52: Susan Mineka, Eshkol Rafaeli, and Iftah Yovel: Cognitive Biases in Emotional Disorders: Information Processing and Social-Cognitive Perspectives 53: Thomas R. Insel: The Neurobiology of Affiliation: Implications for Autism 54: Steven J. Garlow and Charles B. Nemeroff: Neurobiology of Depressive Disorders Part X. Emotion and Health 55: John T. Cacioppo: Introduction: Emotion and Health 56: Janine Giese-Davis and David Spiegel: Emotional Expression and Cancer Progression 57: Carol D. Ryff and Burton H. Singer: The Role of Emotion on Pathways to Positive Health 58: Gary G. Berntson, John T. Cacioppo, and Martin Sarter: Bottom-Up: Implications for Neurobehavioral Models of Anxiety and Autonomic Regulation 59: Bruce S. McEwen and Teresa Seeman: Stress and Affect: Applicability of the Concepts of Allostasis and Allostatic Load Index

Review :
"Overall, the real strength of this book is the comprehensive coverage of a wide range of different approaches to the study of emotion. It is an up-to-date manual that every researcher interested in emotion should display proudly. -Psychological Medicine, Vol. 34, 2004 This handbook will bring about the long-needed integration of the fragmented scholarship in the study of emotion, which advances in neuroscience have recently made possible. The combination of breadth, depth, and clarity will make this volume indispensable to students and to scholars for years to come." --Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University "The Handbook of Affective Sciences is the most comphrensive, authoritative, and up-to-date review available of issues pertaining to emotion. It will be an indispensable reference for anyone interested in understanding the nature of emotions and their relations to other psychological constructs."--Robert J. Sternberg, President, American Psychological Association "This volume defines a new field. Although 'affective science' draws on studies of emotion, it includes much more than what has traditionally been addressed under that rubric. This emerging discipline promises not only to forge crucial links between psychology and neuroscience, but also to build strong bridges between research in the laboratory and practice in the clinic. This book should be on the shelf of anyone seriously interested in psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, or neurology."--Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology, Harvard University