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Psychology of Emotion - PSYC 270 Resource Guide

The study of brain based, sociocultural, and cognitive approches to emotion.

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Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Emotion
This lengthy essay has these sections:
1) The Philosophical Tradition
2) Bodily Responses and Feelings: Darwin and James
3) Philosophical Cognitivism
4) Valence
5) Somatic Wisdom
6) The Nature of Things
7) Normativity and Culture

Encyclopedia of Sociology

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Emotions
This lengthy essay has these sections:
1) The Place of Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Sociology
2) Emotions in Modern Perspective
3) Reason and Emotion
4) Emotions and Macroprocesses
5) Conclusion