Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

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.

Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S Tomkins (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tomkins, Silvan S.

Mental Health

Cambridge University Press

Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories - neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Tomkins challenged the status quo by developing - over the span of nearly 2,000 pages -- a theory of consciousness and motivation that placed emotion at the core of the human experience. Because so few psychologists were studying emotion at that time, Tomkins drew liberally from other academic disciplines to help formulate his ideas and support his arguments: evolutionary biology, ethology, cybernetics, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurophysiology, among others. In the process, Tomkins practically invented the field of "nonverbal behavior" through close observation of emotional expressions in people, including his own infant son. His work was a brilliantly eccentric pastiche of ideas that adhered to no strict disciplinary or ideological boundaries. In time, however, AIC came to prominence through the research of his disciples, notably Paul Ekman and Carroll Izzard, who went on to become major researchers in the psychology of emotion. Today, Tomkins book is influential not just in psychology but in philosophy, sociology, communication studies, even in "affective computing." 
Springer Publishing is pleased to continue to offer this magisterial work in four volumes.

Affect Imagery Consciousness: The Positive Affects

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Springer Publishing Company

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Affect Imagery Consciousness Vol. II: The Negative Affects

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness: The Negative Affects : Anger and Fear

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Affect Imagery and Consciousness: Cognition : Duplication and Transformation of Information (AFFECT, IMAGERY, CONSCIOUSNESS)

Catherine Simmons, PhD, LCSWìDrs. Simmons and Lehmann have given all of us in the helping professionsópractitioners and researchers alikeóa comprehensive resource for finding and selecting psychometrically sound, practical, strengths-based measures that we can use not only to ëlook at the resultsí but to do so in a way that we ëmeasure others by their strengths.í We look forward to seeing this invaluable resourceÖon every social workerís desk in the coming years.î-John G. Orme, PhD, MSWProfessor, University of Tennessee-Terri Combs-Orme, PhDThe Urban Child Institute Endowed Professor

Affect, Cognition and Personality Empirical Studies

Social Sciences

Springer Pub. Co

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