Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of the EmotionsCambridge University Press, 1992 M02 28 - 525 pages A cognitive psychologist who has also trained as a psychotherapist, Keith Oatley is Professor of Applied Psychology at the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and author of Brain Mechanisms and Mind, Perceptions and Representations: The Theoretical Bases of Brain Research, and Selves in Relation: An Introduction to Psychotherapy and Groups. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
The Romantic movement | 2 |
An integrative theory | 3 |
Style and the question of insight | 4 |
Organization and content of the book | 6 |
Theory and function | 9 |
The structure of emotions | 14 |
What is an emotion? | 16 |
Stress and distress | 262 |
Stress and psychosomatic illness | 264 |
Life events and depression | 282 |
A theory of depression | 293 |
The statistics of science and the portraits of art | 303 |
Freuds cognitive psychology of intention the case of Dora | 307 |
The case of the missing intentions | 311 |
Multiple intentions and the repercussions of conflict | 321 |
Simple plans | 24 |
Augmented planning | 31 |
Emotions as communications | 44 |
Intuitive and empirical approaches to understanding | 69 |
Ordinary language and emotion terms in English | 74 |
Theory and evidence | 88 |
Emotions intuitions and insight | 122 |
Rationality and emotions | 130 |
What is rationality? | 148 |
Overcoming limitations of individuals | 165 |
Assembly of fragments into complex plans | 172 |
Mutual plans and social emotions | 178 |
Interpersona1 schemata of emotions | 204 |
And speaking of emotions the pragmatics of emotion terms | 217 |
Conflict and unpredictability | 221 |
Plans and emotions in fictional narrative | 225 |
George Eliots Middlemarch | 238 |
Whose intentions? | 332 |
Dorothea and Dora | 339 |
Enjoyment and creativity | 347 |
Happiness | 350 |
Where and when does happiness occur? | 360 |
The interpersonal structure of happiness | 364 |
How might one become happy? | 376 |
Putting emotions into words | 383 |
Three types of disjunction in emotions | 385 |
Joining semantic and nonsemantic aspects | 393 |
Epilogue | 411 |
Four bases of understanding emotions | 414 |
Notes | 419 |
References | 477 |
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