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Emotions and Action
No full textThis chapter discusses the relationships between emotion and action. Emotion, by its very nature, is change in action readiness to maintain or change one's relationship to an object or event. Motivation, or motivational change, is one of the key aspects of emotions. Even so, action follows only under certain conditions, including the presence and availability of an action repertoire, an equilibrium of the costs and benefits of action, and the presence of resources and motivation to consider the costs and benefits. There are trade-offs between selection from the repertoire and the cost-benefit aspects. The repertoire usually includes low-effort actions that considerably expand the influence of emotions on action
Dutch emigrants 1958
No full textFollow-up among emigrants / disappointments / housing conditions / work experiences / social integration / adjustment / control of language / contacts with homeland. Background variables: basic characteristics/ place of birth/ housing situation/ occupation/employment/ religion/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposur
The self and emotions
No full text(from the introduction) In this chapter, the author discusses emotions. Emotions, according to the author's componential emotion theory (1986) are always about something; they emerge in the person's relationship with the world. In addition, emotions signal that one's own person is at stake. Moreover, emotions can be conceptualized as fluid processes rather than structures or entities. The author addresses the nature of emotions and discusses how emotions are related to the self. He argues that emotions do not require a representation of self, because they include responses to perceived events in which the self is not explicitly appraised. However, from an early age emotions imply what William James called a notion of "I"-the center of experience and action. A commentary by S. Epstein is include
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