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Exploring Affect, The selected Writings of Silvan S Tomkins 1995 ISBN 0521448328

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ISBN
9780521448321

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521448328
ISBN-13
9780521448321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
198911

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
540 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Exploring Affect : the Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins
Subject
General, Social Psychology
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology
Author
Silvan S. Tomkins
Series
Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
94-013641
Reviews
"...an edited volume of Tomkins's selected writings is of such great value. Though the task was no doubt arduous, E. Virginia Demos has selected and edited a perspicuous account of Tomkins's nearly 50 years of scholarship." Ed de St. Aubin, Contemporary Psychology
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
152.4
Table Of Content
Introduction M. Brewster Smith; 1. Affect theory; 2. Affect and ideology; 3. The face of affect; 4. Script theory: the differential magnification of affect; 5. Human being theory: a foundation for the study of personality; 6. A complete annotated bibliography of Silvan S. Tomkins' writings with a brief biography.
Synopsis
Silvan Tomkins was one of the most influential theorists on emotion and emotional expression. Over a period of 40 - some years - until his death in 1991 - he developed a set of original, important ideas about the nature of affect and its relationship to cognition and personality. Tomkins dealt with fundamental questions in a fresh and provocative way, establishing affect as a separate, biological system, and providing compelling data on discrete affect expressions. Several years before his death, Professor Tomkins agreed to bring his papers (unpublished and published) together into Exploring Affect for Cambridge Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction. He worked with Paul Ekman and Klaus Scherer to develop a structure for the book that would synthesize his theory of emotion. Unfortunately, he died before he was able to complete the process. Virginia Demos, who knew Professor Tomkins well, took on the enormous task of compiling the papers and writing connective material for the book. This volume of Tomkins selected writings on affect brings together his works of four decades and makes them available at a more receptive time in the field. It is a treasure trove of provocative, insightful and relevant ideas., A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion and motivation., Silvan Tomkins was one of the most influential theorists on emotion and emotional expression. Over a period of forty years--until his death in 1991--he developed a set of original, important ideas about the nature of affect and its relationship to cognition and personality. Tomkins dealt with fundamental questions in a fresh and provocative way, establishing affect as a separate, biological system, and providing compelling data on discrete affect expressions. Virginia Demos has undertaken the enormous task of compiling Professor Tomkins' papers and writing connective material for this volume, which brings together his works of four decades and makes them available at a more receptive time in the field. It is a rich compilation of insightful and relevant ideas appropriate for researchers and graduate students in personality and social psychology., Silvan Tomkins was one of the most creative theorists of emotion in the recent past, but he was ahead of his time, and largely ignored. This book gathers together his writings under one cover and makes them available to psychologists, psychiatrists, and social scientists at this more favorable time. His theory is unique in specifying the role of emotion as distinct from cognition and drives. It is truly a bio-psycho-social theory of human emotion and of human psychological functioning.
LC Classification Number
BF531 .T584 1995

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