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Cognition in Emotion
An Investigation
Through Experiences with Art
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2007. 129 pp.
(Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 10)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2333-8 Paperback
€ 26,-
Online info:
http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=cla+10
Emotions are
essential for human existence, both lighting the way toward the brightest of
achievements and setting the course into the darkness of suffering. Not
surprisingly, then, emotion research is currently one of the hottest topics in the
field of psychology. Yet to divine the nature of emotion is a complex and
extensive task. In this book emotions are approached thought an exploration of
the nature of cognition in emotion; the nature of thoughts in feelings. Different
approaches to emotions are explored, from brain research to research at the
level of experience, and it is argued that all approaches must seriously take
into account the experiential dimension. A qualitative study of experiences
with art is therefore presented, as emotions and cognition are often expressed
in experiences with art. It is the first study of its kind. Descriptions of
various affective phenomena are then given which have significant implications
for contemporary debates about emotions, resolving several contemporary
controversies.
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