Keith Oatley and Jennifer M. Jenkins’s best-selling book on
the psychology of emotions is the most highly regarded and engaging
text for the emotions course. While retaining its interdisciplinary
breadth, historical insights, and engaging format, this new edition
adds the expertise of outstanding researcher and dedicated teacher
Dacher Keltner. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to
reflect the latest research and developments in emotions and
includes the following features:

Cohesive synthesis of evolutionary and cultural approaches to
emotion

New chapters on communication of emotion, bodily changes, and
appraisal

Increased emphasis on interpersonal implications of emotions,
including studies of newly discovered expressions and systems of
communication

Keith Oatley is Director of the Cognitive Science Program,
University of Toronto. He is the author of more than 130 scholarly
articles and seven books, including Emotions: A Brief
History (Blackwell, 2004), and two novels.

Dacher Keltner is professor of psychology at University
of California at Berkeley, and the author of more than 80 scholarly
articles and one book. He received the 2000 Templeton Positive
Psychology Prize for Excellence in Research, and two
university-wide teaching awards at UC Berkeley.

Jennifer M. Jenkins is Professor in the Department of
Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of
Toronto. She is co-editor, with Keith Oatley, of Human Emotions:
A Reader (Blackwell, 1998). She now heads a large research
project on gene-environment interactions in children.

offers a coherent and logical sequence in a revised and updated
new edition

emphasizes the value of emotions and explores the latest
research with practical concern for clinical problems, education
and everyday understanding

extends across a broad range of disciplines and covers the
entire lifespan from infancy to adulthood

includes sections on the study of emotion, the different
elements of emotion, evidence of how emotions govern and organize
social life, and emotion and individual functioning, including
psychological disorder and well being

changes include: an earlier discussion of what is an emotion,
combined chapters on evolutionary and cultural approaches, studies
of new expressions (love, desire), as well as new systems of
communication (touch, music), new findings on emotion and the
central nervous system, and recent studies on the role of emotion
in moral judgment

“This new edition is as delightful and informative as its
predecessor. It includes the important advancements in research
made over the past 10 years, and carries the clear fruits of its
enlarged authorship.” Nico Frijda, University of
Amsterdam

“Understanding Emotions provides an admirable
theoretical integration of empirical research and, at the same
time, makes emotion research relevant to our everyday lives. It is
the perfect book for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses
on emotion.” Batja Mesquita, Wake Forest
University

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