The hidden genius of emotion : lifespan transformations of personality / Carol Magai, Jeannette Haviland-Jones.

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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Magai, Carol
Other Authors: Haviland-Jones, Jeannette M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 2002.
Series:Studies in emotion and social interaction.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Introduction
  • 1. Challenging the Prevailing View
  • 2. Affect, Human Development, and Dynamic Systems
  • pt. II. Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development
  • 3. Lives Attracted to Shame and Longing: Carl Rogers
  • 4. Lives Repelled by Fear and Distress: Albert Ellis
  • 5. Lives Repelled and Attracted by Contempt and Shame: Fritz Perls
  • pt. III. Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work
  • 6. Wisdom and Passion
  • 7. Cognitive Stages and Joy, Surprise: Carl Rogers
  • 8. Cartesian Logic and Anger, Fear: Albert Ellis
  • 9. Dialectical Logic and Excitement, Disgust, and Shame: Fritz Perls
  • pt. IV. Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior
  • 10. Postures and Climate in Dyadic Interaction
  • pt. V. Presenting a New View
  • 11. Summarizing the Emotional Links
  • 12. Lives and Change: Emotional Repetition and Uniqueness in Linear, Complex, and Chaotic Personality Systems.