Mind and Body - George Mandler

psychology of emotion and stress

KORTE INHOUD

Cognitive psychology has had a wide-ranging influence on all areas of psychology. Human emotional experience is no exception. From his earliest research, Professor George Mandler has focused on the problem of emotion.
Now, that interest and his seminal contributions to our understanding of cognition and information processing converge. The result is 'Mind and Body', an innovative basic text on the emotions.
How should we disentangle emotional experience? To answer this, Professor Mandler analyzes the cognitive-interpretive system of the mind. From infancy on, we use this mental apparatus to structure and understand the events around us. And as we do, we form mental structures, or 'schemas', which serve to interpret and avaluate the world and bodily reactions. 'Mind and Body' examines the variety and regularity of human emotional experience and the processes that arise from our evaluations of the world and our bodily reactions.
But Professor Mandler goes well beyond basic principles. He discusses the history of e...
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