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Emotional Contagion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Elaine Hatfield, John T. Cacioppo, Richard L. Rapson

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When people are in a certain mood, whether elated or depressed, that mood is often communicated to others. When we are talking to someone who is depressed it may make us feel depressed, whereas if we talk to someone who is feeling self-confident and buoyant we are likely to feel good about ourselves. This phenomenon, known as emotional contagion, is identified here, and compelling evidence for its effects is offered from a variety of disciplines--social and developmental psychology, history, cross-cultural psychology, experimental psychology, and psychopathology. The authors propose a simple mechanism to account for the process of contagion. They argue that people, in their everyday encounters, tend automatically and continuously to synchronize with the facial expressions, voices, postures, movements, and instrumental emotional behaviors of others. Emotional experiences are affected, moment-to-moment, by the feedback from such mimicry. In a series of orderly chapters, the authors provide observational and laboratory evidence to support their propositions. They then offer practical suggestions for clinical psychologists, physicians, husbands and wives, parents, and professionals who wish to become better at shaping the emotional tone of social encounters.

Sensuous Living: Expand Your Sensory Awareness (Llewellyn's Whole Life Series)

Nancy Conger

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The Emotional Freedom Workbook: Take Control of Your Life And Experience Emotional Strength

Stephen Arterburn, Connie Neal

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Based on the New Life Clinic Program, "The Emotional Freedom Workbook" will help you get past emotional obstacles and embark on an exciting spiritual pilgrimage. This biblically and psychologically sound workbook will teach you better ways of thinking and help you experience a new sense of personal worth and inner strength as well as a full range of joyous emotions. You can successfully reclaim happiness, fulfillment, satisfying relationships, healthy attitudes, and inner peace.

Hatred: The Psychological Descent into Violence

Willard Gaylin

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A renowned psychoanalyst offers a clear-eyed, thought-provoking examination of humankind's most destructive emotion, and the seductive power it has to tear our world apart.

We all get angry at the built-in frustrations and humiliations of everyday life. But few of us ever experience the intense and perverse hatred that inspires acts of malignant violence such as suicide bombings or ethnic massacres.

In Hatred, Dr.Willard Gaylin, one of America's most respected psychiatrists, describes how raw personal passions are transformed into acts of violence and cultures of hatred. Such hatred goes beyond mere emotion. Hatred, Gaylin explains, is a psychological disorder--a form of quasi-delusional thinking. It requires forming "a passionate attachment," an obsessive involvement with the scapegoat population. It is designed to allow the angry and frustrated individual to disavow responsibility for his own failures and misery by directing it towards a convenient victim.

Gaylin dissects the mechanisms by which cynical political and religious leaders manipulate frustrated and deprived people, leading to the acts of mass terror that threaten us all. Step-by-step, he leads us into an understanding of the psychological pathway to acts of terrorism--an understanding that is an essential to survival in a world of hatred.

Hatred is a masterwork in Willard Gaylin's life-long study of human emotions. Writing for the educated lay audience in the eloquent, accessible language of his bestsellers Feelings and Rediscovering Love, he takes us to the very roots of hatred.

Sight and Sensibility : The Ecopsychology of Perception

Laura Sewall

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In the tradition of A Natural History of the Senses, an esteemed expert in ecopsychology shows how expanding the way we see the natural world can improve the way we relate to it.

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the connection between the human psyche and the natural environment. Fueled by a growing awareness of worldwide ecological degradation, an entirely new field of study, called ecopsychology, has emerged. At universities across the country, scientists are learning how the decline of our planet's environment affects not just our physical health but also our minds and emotions.

Laura Sewall, Ph.D., is one of ecopsychology's pioneers and an expert in the study of the visual process. In combining these fields, she has determined that the sense of sight is key to understanding and potentially reversing the effects of ecological destruction. In Sight and Sensibility--the first book on ecopsychology for lay readers--Sewall draws on her fieldwork studying the visual behavior of baboons and teaching vision improvement to trace the evolution of human sight and the cultural development of different ways of seeing. She shows how we can restructure the neural networks that determine how we see, awaken to visual patterns and depth perception, and learn to see more of the world around us.

A contemporary companion to John Berger's classic Ways of Seeing, Sight and Sensibility is a dazzling blend of science, psychology, and poetry.

Thinking in the Shadow of Feelings: A New Understanding of the Hidden Forces That Shape Individuals and Societies

Reuven, M.D. Bar-Levav

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Unusual. Dense. Ahead of its time. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is one that must be read slowly and thought about each step of the way. It is not difficult. A sensitive 6th grader can understand it. But an intellectualizing Ph.D may be too thick-headed to see the personal and societal implications of this work. It is a completely different understanding of what motivates humankind. Its range of application is from emotional illness to societal disputes. I cannot believe that this book is out of print, except that it is ahead of its time.

Human Motivation Writ Small , Writ Large 5 out of 5 stars.
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Dr. Reuven Bar-Levav was , in addition to being the most distinguished , dedicated and accomplished healer in the history of medical psychiatry , a leading theoretician of human motivation and the effects of human motivation on the character and disposition of societies. Thinking in the Shadow of Feelings , Dr. Bar-Levav's first book , is an astounding heuristic accomplishment linking the implications of the seven basic human emotions on a grand scale to a unified theory of human behavior ; a theory encompassing the broader constructs and effects of human political and social organization throughout modern history. It stands as capstone to Dr. Bar-Levav's legacy , a coda to what a difference one man made in the lives of countless individuals in the course of his profesional practice.

Fear - Anger-Hurt-Hate-Happiness-Sadness-Love the prime matter of human motivation are the building blocks of Dr. Bar-Levav's thesis. These basic components of human motivation are offset starkly against the human capacity to reason as a touchstone in the analysis of man's historic struggle for self possession and attainable satisfaction and fulfillment.

Thus it is that Dr. Bar-Levav takes us along the path of tension between the elements of human emotion and the human capacity for reasoning ; a sometimes harrowing , sometimes poignant , always riveting journey which perforce entreats the reader to examine the state of his/her own mental capacities and functioning abilities ( and the critical limitations thereof ) in ways which are , at once , eye-opening and life expanding. And in ways which relate the same tension and what dilemmas are posed with it to the disposition of social and political forces both at large and within history.

Dr. Bar-Levav was an extraordinary individual who graced - and in some cases literally saved - the lives of many good people who were entrusted to his care. His work lives on as a condign expression of that legacy in all its richness and texture.

Perceptual Development: Visual, Auditory and Speech Perception in Infancy (Studies in Developmental Psychology Series)

Alan M. Slater

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In order for infants to make sense of the world they have to perceive it, and research into the development of sensory and perceptual abilities is one of the most exciting and important areas of infancy research.

The aim of this book is both to reflect current knowledge of perceptual development and to point to some of the many questions that remain unanswered. The study of perceptual development is now a sophisticated science. The majority of the chapters tell a fascinating detective story: the way in which infants perceive and understand the world as they develop. Each of the major sections is prefaced by introductory comments, and the book will be useful for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and other professionals who have an interest in early perceptual development and in infancy in general.

The Psychology of Anomalous Experience: A Cognitive Approach (Psychology Series)

Graham F. Reed

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In the rich fabric of daily experience peculiar chinks may occur. They give us pause to reflect on the world and how we relate to it. This revised edition of a timeless classic will help you to see the reality of anomalous experience as part of your own psychological tapestry. Dr Reed shows how the mind's organisational capability and its information processing set the stage for strange happenings. Understanding the choices you make - albeit unconsciously - when perceiving the world serves to explain both the usual and the unusual, without recourse to the supernatural.

Shame: Spiritual Suicide

Vicki, Ph.D. Underland-Rosow

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Something Lacking 4 out of 5 stars.
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The author does a fantastic job at explaining the problem of shame. Shame is a relational feeling; it originates from outside the individual. Shame, the author claims, is a way for parents and institutions to control people. In short, shame is the experience of the person disconnecting oneself to one's own feeling, thoughts and opinions. An example of shame is illustrated in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

My only and biggest disappointment in the book is the abrupt ending of her book. She emphasizes the Twelve Step Recovery Process to be the best way to over come Shame. Her other fault is that she gives religion a bad rap.

Overall, this book does a fantastic job at describing shame and its origins, however, the ending is like some said, "Hurry up, this book needs to go to printing.

I would love the author to revise this book and offer other alternatives. However, as I already wrote, If some one wants to understand the problem of shame, this is a great start. She even showed the flaws in the infamous author Bradshaw's theories about shame. Bradshaw missed the mark. To understand the flaws in Bradshaw's Healing the Shame is worth every penny and more on this book.

Bradshaw is seen on PBS as the great High Priest of emotional Education. Read this book: "Shame: Spiritual Suicide" and you will at least understand the problem. Reading Bradshaw is like going fishing in the Hudson River. First of all, the Hudson is polluted and if you catch any fish, you can't eat it. If you do eat the fish, you will get sick.

I implore author Vicki Underland-Rosow, Ph.D. to take another shot and revise this book adding other alternatives to dealing with shame in addition to the twelve steps.

In short, the best pieces of information I learned from this book is that shame is a learned behavior; it is not a natural emotion. Shame is from the outside. I would not know shame unless someone instilled it in me. We were not born with shame.

Psychophysics: Introduction to Its Perceptual, Neural, and Social Prospects

S.S. Stevens

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This book is a lively account by one of experimental psychology's seminal figures of his lifelong quest for general laws governing human behavior. It captures the fundamental themes of Stevens's research and his vision of what psychophysics and psychology are and can be. The context of this modern classic is detailed by Lawrence Marks's pungent and highly revealing introduction. Methods of measuring human psychophysical behavior: magnitude estimation, magnitude production, and cross-modality matching, are used to examine sensory mechanisms, perceptual processes, and social consensus.