The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

10. Emotions

  1. Feeling and Thinking
  2. Emotions as Survival Instinct
  3. The Emotional Brain
  4. Emotions as Communication
  5. Emotion as Rationality
  6. Emotion as Homeostasis
  7. Emotion as Heterostasis
  8. Emotion as Cognition
  9. Emotion as Communication Between the Brain and the Self
  10. Emotion as Body Representation
  11. Somatic Markers
  12. Emotion as Change Of Body State
  13. Of Representation Systems
  14. Emotion as Memory
  15. Reward and Punishment
  16. Nature vs Nurture
  17. Affective Computing
  18. A Cultural Construct
  19. Emotional Questions?
  20. For A Theory Of Emotions
  21. Mind As An Evolution Of Emotions

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Aggleton, John: THE AMYGDALA (Wiley-Liss, 1992)

Birbaumer, Niles, Ohman, Arne & Lang, Peter: THE STRUCTURE OF EMOTION (Hogrefe & Huber, 1993)

Birdwhistell, Ray: Kinesics and Context (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970)

Buck, Ross: THE COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION (Guilford Press, 1984)

Damasio, Antonio: THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS (Harcourt Brace, 1999)

Damasio, Antonio: DESCARTES' ERROR (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)

Damasio, Antonio: LOOKING FOR SPINOZA (Harcourt, 2003)

Darwin, Charles: The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)

DeSousa, Ronald: THE RATIONALITY OF EMOTION (MIT Press, 1987)

Ekman, Paul: THE NATURE OF EMOTION (Oxford Univ Press, 1994)

Elster, Jon: ALCHEMIES OF THE MIND (Cambridge Univ Press, 2000)

Feldman-Barrett, Lisa: HOW EMOTIONS ARE MADE (Pan Macmillan, 2017)

Frijda, Nico: THE EMOTIONS (1986)

Frijda, Nico: THE LAWS OF EMOTION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006)

Fromm, Rich: THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE (1951)

Geertz,  Clifford: THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES (1973)

Gladwell, Malcolm: BLINK (Brown and Co, 2005)

Goldie, Peter: THE EMOTIONS (Oxford Univ Press, 2000)

Goldstein Kurt: THE ORGANISM: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BIOLOGY (USA Book, 1934)

Goleman, Daniel: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (Bantam, 1995)

Greenspan, Patricia: EMOTIONS AND REASONS (Routledge, 1988)

Griffiths, Paul: WHAT EMOTIONS REALLY ARE (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997)

Harre, Rom: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THEORY OF EMOTIONS (Blackwell, 1986)

Hobson, Allan: THE CHEMISTRY OF CONSCIOUS STATES (Little & Brown, 1994)

Hoffman, Martin: EMPATHY AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

James, William: PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY (1890)

Jauregui Jose: EL ORDENADOR CEREBRAL/ THE EMOTIONAL COMPUTER (1990)

Kleitman, Nathaniel: SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS  (1939)

Klopf, Harry: THE HEDONISTIC NEURON (Hemisphere, 1982)

Laird, James: FEELINGS (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Lane, Ricahrd & Nadel Lynn: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF EMOTION (Oxford Univ Press, 2000)

Lazarus, Richard: EMOTION AND ADAPTATION (Oxford Univ Press, 1991)

Lazarus, Richard & Lazarus Bernice: PASSION AND REASON (Oxford Univ Press, 1994)

LeDoux, Joseph: THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN (Simon & Schuster, 1996)

Lutz, Catherine: UNNATURAL EMOTIONS (Univ of Chicago Press, 1988)

Mandler, George: MIND AND BODY (Norton, 1984)

Noe, Alva: ACTION IN PERCEPTION (MIT Press, 2005)

Oatley Keith & Jenkins Jennifer: UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS (Blackwell, 1996)

Ortony, Andrew, Clore Gerald & Collins Allan: THE COGNITIVE STRUCTURE OF EMOTIONS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1988)

Panksepp, Jaak: AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE (Oxford Univ Press, 1988)

Picard, Rosalind: AFFECTIVE COMPUTING (MIT Press, 1997)

Prinz, Jesse: GUT REACTIONS (Oxford Univ Press, 2004)

Robinson, Jenefer: DEEPER THAN REASON (Oxford Univ Press, 2005)

Rolls, Edmund: THE BRAIN AND EMOTION (Oxford Univ Press, 1999)

Salovey, Peter & Mayer, John: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (Dude, 2004)

Scherer, Klaus:  EXPERIENCING EMOTION (Cambridge Univ Press, 1986)

Scherer, Klaus:  A BLUEPRINT FOR AFFECTIVE COMPUTING (Oxford Univ Press, 2010)

Solomon, Robert: TRUE TO OUR FEELINGS (Oxford Univ Press, 2007)

Stenning, Keith: SEEING REASON (Oxford Univ Press, 2002)

Stevens, Anthony : Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming ()

Wundt, Wilhelm: OUTLINE OF PSYCHOLOGY (Entgelmann, 1896)

Zajonc, Robert: FEELING AND THINKING (1980)