 | What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Paul E. Griffiths
Buy new: $15.10 / Used from: $1.91 This is one of the most deeply penetrating books on the question of emotions are. Extraordinary clarity and depth on a tough topic.
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 | Emotion and Adaptation by Richard S. Lazarus
Buy new: $38.35 / Used from: $17.50 An important breakthrough work, focusing on the functional roles emotion plays in adaptive organismic response.
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 | The Science of Emotion: Research and Tradition in the Psychology of Emotion by Randolph R. Cornelius
Buy new: $80.40 / Used from: $3.42 This is less technical, it is an excellent introductory overview to the strengths and weaknesses of each of the various theories of emotion: Darwinian, Jamesian, Cognitive, and Social Constructivist.
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 | A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.40 A humane interdisciplinary theory. Contains some gaps but an interesting framework and an excellent read.
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 | The Psychology of Love
Buy used from: $2.59 An interesting collection of diverse psychological theories
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 | Cupid's Arrow: The Course of Love through Time by Robert J. Sternberg PhD
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $4.50 Largely builds on Sternberg's useful triangle theory (intimacy, passion, commitment), but goes way beyond it and offers many interesting insights.
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 | Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov
Buy new: $15.34 / Used from: $4.44 A classic in the psychology of emotion. Splendidly describes the unique obsessive character of falling in love.
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 | The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment by Jack Morin
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $6.71 A particularly good treatment of the dynamics of erotic feelings.
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 | The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph Ledoux
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $6.00 Good introduction to the current neuroscience of emotion, based on LeDoux's fascinating work with fear.
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 | Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology)
Buy new: $43.00 / Used from: $16.00 State of the art anthropological perspective
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 | Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
Buy used from: $0.01 Technically superficial and has some holes, but a very admirable and compelling plea for recognition of emotional development as part of education. Worthwhile propaganda.
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 | Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Series in Affective Science) by Jaak Panksepp
Buy used from: $30.00 Along similar lines to LeDoux's Emotional Brain, but with a more technical focus.
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 | Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion
Buy new: $74.50 / Used from: $26.95 Another technical text, expanding the scope somewhat to include more emphasis on cognitive processes.
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 | Cognition and Emotion (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language) by Eric Eich
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $0.15 Lifts the topic to a broad scope, covering thoughts, feelings, and language. This makes it technically very difficult but rewarding.
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 | Emotional Contagion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by Elaine Hatfield
Buy new: $25.64 / Used from: $21.00 The missing link between individual suggestibility and mass hysteria: how emotional states spread.
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 | Emotion, Disclosure, & Health
Buy used from: $14.00 Detailed science behind the relationship of disclosure and emotion, the foundation of "talk therapy."
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 | Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally by John Mordechai Gottman
Buy used from: $121.98 A pioneer in the use of empirically validated methods for relationship therapy. Profound insights into emotion in families.
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 | Emotions and Beliefs: How Feelings Influence Thoughts (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)
Buy new: $33.91 / Used from: $25.00 Beliefs spread and emotions spread ... this book covers some of the links between them.
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 | Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel by Candace B. Pert
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $2.29 Foundational work on the important and previously discounted role of neuropeptides in emotion, soaked in massive editorializing, interesting speculation, and personal stories.
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 | The Development of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)
Buy new: $120.00 / Used from: $100.00 Technical. Covers details of central topic of how we learn to regulate our emotions, and how it fails.
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 | Cognition, Emotion and Autonomic Responses: The Integrative Role of the Prefrontal Cortex and Limbic Structures, Volume 126 (Progress in Brain Research) by H.B.M. Uylings
Very detailed technical discussion of the key mechanisms. For graduate level students and researchers.
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 | The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions (Series in Affective Science)
Buy new: $48.13 / Used from: $5.00 A diverse collection of experts discuss deep questions in the study of human emotions
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 | Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space : Reflections on Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Embodiment by Sue L. Cataldi
Buy new: $38.33 / Used from: $51.63 Deep philosophical foundations for a biological view of emotions.
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 | Passion and Reason: Making Sense of Our Emotions by Richard S. Lazarus
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $7.00 A good non-technical introduction to emotion research, focusing on correcting popular myths
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 | Why We Feel: The Science of Human Emotion by Victor S. Johnston
Buy used from: $1.00 Clear introduction to evolutionary thinking in the origins of emotion, focusing on feeling
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