Neil McNaughton

Biology and Emotion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The central idea of this book is that biology, and particularly evolution, provide the best starting point for the study of emotion. In particular, it argues that all the conventional properties of emotion, such as expression, feeling and motivation can be considered scientifically and conclusions drawn.

Produktdetails

• Problems in the Behavioural Sciences
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780521319386
• ISBN-10: 0521319382
• Artikelnr.: 21948434

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Emotion since Darwin
2. Releasers and state-dependent reflexes
3. Purpose and emotion
4. Expression: a window on the emotions?
5. Are physiological changes epiphenomena of emotions?
6. Somatic influences on the emotion?
7. Optimal foraging and the partial reinforcement effect: a model for the teleonomy of feelings
8. Do emotions mature or differentiate?
9. Cognition, learning and emotion
10. Interaction of the components of emotion
11. Of mice and men
12. Biology and emotion: some conclusions
Glossary
Notes
References
Index.