As the 66th volume in the prestigious Nebraska Series on Motivation,
this book focuses on understanding emotion and motivation as two factors
that not only influence social and cognitive processes, but also shape
the way we navigate our social world. Research on emotion has increased
significantly over the past two decades, pulling from scholarship in
psychology, neuroscience, medicine, political science, sociology, and
even computer science. This volume is informed by the growing momentum
in the resulting interdisciplinary field of affective science, and
examines the role of emotion and motivation in our perceptions,
decision-making, and social interactions, and attempts to understand the
neurobiological mechanisms that support these processes across the
lifespan in both healthy and clinical populations.
Included among the chapters:
- Emotion concept development from childhood to adulthood
- Evolving psychological and neural models for the regulation of emotion
- Pathways to motivational impairments in psychopathology
- A valuation systems perspective on motivation
- Reproducible, generalizable brain models of affective processes
Emotion in the Mind and Body is a comprehensive and compelling
rendering of the current state of the interdisciplinary field of
affective science, and will be of interest to researchers and students
working in psychology and neuroscience, as well as medicine, political
science, and sociology.
