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Kenneth Thomas Strongman (2 December 1940 – 29 December 2019) was a New Zealand psychologist and academic, and was a professor of psychology at the University of Canterbury, specialising in the field of emotion. He was also a short-story writer, book and television reviewer, and newspaper columnist.
George Mandler provided an extensive theoretical and empirical discussion of emotion as influenced by cognition, consciousness, and the autonomic nervous system in two books (Mind and Emotion, 1975, [89] and Mind and Body: Psychology of Emotion and Stress, 1984 [90])
He is a specialist in the psychology of emotion. [1] He is known for editing the Handbook of Affective Sciences and several other influential articles on emotions, expression, personality and music. He is also a founding editor of the APA journal Emotion .
An increasing interest in emotion can be seen in the behavioral, biological and social sciences. Research over the last two decades suggests that many phenomena, ranging from individual cognitive processing to social and collective behavior, cannot be understood without taking into account affective determinants (i.e. motives, attitudes, moods, and emotions). [1]
[1] Weiner has published 15 books and many articles on the psychology of motivation and emotion , and has been a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1965. He is the father of Mark Weiner , a professor of law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark .
Emotions are subjective experiences, often associated with mood, temperament, personality, and disposition. Articles about specific emotional states should be placed in Category:Emotions or one of its subcategories.
Barrett was born in 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a working poor family and was the first member of her extended family to attend university. [8] After graduating from the University of Toronto with honors, she pursued a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Waterloo with the goal of becoming a therapist, [9] until a frustrating puzzle sidetracked her from a clinical career.
Primal emotions, such as love and fear, are associated with ancient parts of the psyche. Social emotions, such as guilt and pride, evolved among social primates. Evolutionary psychologists consider human emotions to be best adapted to the life our ancestors led in nomadic foraging bands.