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A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion and motivation.
"This book discusses affect theory. It is not primarily focused on what is current knowledge. I have sought to explore new territory. It is my intention to reopen issues which have long remained in disrepute in American Psychology: affect, imagery and consciousness. These have lately come to interest neurophysiologists and biochemists more than psychologists. This book explores positive affect, negative affect, and cognition and ideology"--Create. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).
A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion and motivation.
Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company 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 sup...
Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company 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 sup...
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"This book discusses affect theory. It is not primarily focused on what is current knowledge. I have sought to explore new territory. It is my intention to reopen issues which have long remained in disrepute in American Psychology: affect, imagery and consciousness. These have lately come to interest neurophysiologists and biochemists more than psychologists. This book explores positive affect, negative affect, and cognition and ideology"--Create. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).