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A guide to understanding why and how we feel as human beings. This book explores the different emotions we experience, the way they shape and influence our lives, and how essential they have always been to us.
What are emotions and why do we experience them? In the last 50 years or so, psychological science has shed light on the essence of what makes us human—why we experience a range of feelings from joy to sadness, anger to fear, and compassion to contempt. Yet, the science of emotion remains mostly inaccessible to the curious reader and those outside academic circles.
This book is a story of our emotions; a story of why and how we feel as human beings. It is a tale of our emotions, told by philosophers, biologists, neuroscientists, sociologists, and economists. Drawing on the rich psychological research on emotions, this book invites you to revisit your emotions and to better appreciate and understand how feeling states define us and our humanity.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Experiencing Emotions Again for the First Time
Between the Universal and the Unique
Emotions Lexicon Part I: Anger to Melancholy
Emotions Lexicon Part II: Nostalgia to Zeal
Personality and Emotion
Necessarily Irrational
Emotions in Interpersonal Relationships
Feeling With, and Acting as One
The Happiness of Nations
The Future of Emotion
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
