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In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function,...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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As the World Thought Leaders on Customer Experience, Colin Shaw and the team at Beyond Philosophy have undertaken more than 18 months of groundbreaking research to discover the emotions that drive and destroy value in an organization, and can now disclose the empirical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-05-10
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Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-04-19
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Emotion research has become a mature branch of psychology, with its own standardized measures, induction procedures, data-analysis challenges, and sub-disciplines. During the last decade, a number of books addressing major questions in the study of emotion have been...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-04-19
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Feelings argues for the counter-intuitive idea that feelings do not cause behavior, but rather follow from behavior, and are, in fact, the way that we know about our own bodily states and behaviors. This point of view, often associated with William James, is called...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-01-11
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Client anger is a perennial problem for a range of professionals working in clinical settings. Working with Anger presents an alternative strategy to the most common approach, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), exploring instead how anger can be tackled from a...
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Wiley
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2006-06-14
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A married person falls deeply in love with someone else.A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car.A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a...
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Oxford University Press
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2005-11-01
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A married person falls deeply in love with someone else.A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car.A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a...
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Oxford University Press
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2005-11-01
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Everybody wants it. But what exactly is happiness?
The pursuit of happiness has been recognized by everyone from poets to politicians as what makes the world go round. The world's largest and fastest-growing industries - alcohol, pharmaceuticals, mind altering drugs,...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-05-12
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Everybody wants it. But what exactly is happiness?
The pursuit of happiness has been recognized by everyone from poets to politicians as what makes the world go round. The world's largest and fastest-growing industries - alcohol, pharmaceuticals, mind altering drugs,...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-05-12
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Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body, they also allow us to literally perceive danger, loss, and other matters of...
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Oxford University Press
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2004-08-12
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Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body, they also allow us to literally perceive danger, loss, and other matters of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-08-12
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Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony, psychobiologists, to name just a few. Memory and Emotion spans all these areas and brings them...
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Oxford University Press
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2003-12-04
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In this volume, Alex Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments on emotional intensity....
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Oxford University Press
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2003-03-06
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Emotion is one of the defining forces in our lives. It lies at the very heart of many of our most important experiences and memories. Not surprisingly, the worlds of business and marketing have long drawn on the power of emotion to influence consumer impulses and brand...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-12-26
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The scientific study of emotion has long been dominated by theories emphasizing the subjective experience of emotions and their accompanying expressive and physiological responses.The processes by which different emotions are elicited has received less attention, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-05-03
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Minding the Body, Mending the Mind reveals the power of spiritual optimism: a philosophy that sees life crises as opportunities for personal growth and spiritual transformation.
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Grand Central Publishing
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2001-03-15
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