The hidden genius of emotion : lifespan transformations of personality /

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Author / Creator:Magai, Carol.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 527 pages)
Language:English
Series:Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series
Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129612
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Other authors / contributors:Haviland-Jones, Jeannette M.
ISBN:9780511509575
051150957X
051104027X
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0511051441
9780511051449
0511178204
9780511178207
9780521640947
0521640946
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-520) and indexes.
Print version record.
Summary:This book discusses how emotion powerfully influences our moment-to-moment thoughts, behaviors, and interpersonal interactions. This hidden influence is unveiled in the present volume, taking as its example the lives of three famous mid-century psychologists.
Other form:Print version: Magai, Carol. Hidden genius of emotion. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 2002 0521640946
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Challenging the prevailing view
  • 2. Affect, human development, and dynamic systems
  • Part II. Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development
  • 3. Lives attracted to shame and longing: Rogers
  • 4. Lives repelled by fear and distress: Ellis
  • 5. Lives repelled and attracted by contempt and shame: Perls
  • Part III. Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work
  • 6. Wisdom and passion
  • 7. Cognitive stages and joy, surprise: Rogers
  • 8. Cartesian logic and anger, fear: Ellis
  • 9. Dialectical logic and excitement, disgust and shame: Perls
  • Part IV. Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior
  • 10. Postures and climate in dyadic interaction
  • Part V. Presenting a New View
  • 11. Summarizing the emotional links
  • 12. Lives and change: emotional energy in linear, complex, and chaotic personality systems