Emotion Science: Cognitive and Neuroscientific Approaches to Understanding Human Emotions [Paperback] [2008] Elaine Fox

by Elaine Fox

Emotion Science is a state-of-the-art introduction to the study of emotion. Drawing on an extraordinarily wide array of research from psychology and neuroscience, the author presents an integrated picture of our current understanding of normal as well as disordered emotions such as anxiety and depression. Theory and evidence are deftly interwoven, and key studies are critically evaluated on the basis of the experimental methods that were used, and assessed for their overall contribution to the broader field. The author draws a clear distinction between emotions, moods and feelings, and suggests how they can be understood within an integrated model.

The book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and related areas as well as a reference for active researchers.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Neuroscience

Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

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Elaine Fox is a psychologist and neuroscientist who has researched widely on the science of emotions. She grew up in the 1970s in Dublin and has worked at St James Hospital Dublin, University College Dublin, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and has been a visiting senior scientist at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. She is currently a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex.

Elaine has published widely on the scientific aspects of fear and optimism, and her work, which has appeared in many leading scientific journals, has been summarized in an academic book Emotion Science: Neuroscientific and Cognitive Approaches to Understanding Human Emotions (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008).

Her scientific discoveries on the genetic aspects of optimism have been discussed widely across the national media, and led to her appearance in an ABC documentary presented by Michael J. Fox (no relation) entitled The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, as well as the writing of her first commercial project, RAINY BRAIN, SUNNY BRAIN.

Reviews

[Julie Jenson Bennett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Elaine Fox’s Emo­tion Sci­ence was pub­lished in 2008, and turns out to be a treas­ure trove for those of us try­ing to integ­rate sev­eral dec­ades of aca­demic and pop­u­lar thought on emo­tion. In par­tic­u­lar, she weaves emer­ging find­ings from neur­os­cience into the mix in an access­ible and excit­ing way.