Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S Tomkins

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Cambridge University Press, 27.01.1995 - 516 Seiten
Silvan Tomkins was one of the most influential theorists on emotion and emotional expression. Over a period of 40 - some years - until his death in 1991 - he developed a set of original, important ideas about the nature of affect and its relationship to cognition and personality. Tomkins dealt with fundamental questions in a fresh and provocative way, establishing affect as a separate, biological system, and providing compelling data on discrete affect expressions. Several years before his death, Professor Tomkins agreed to bring his papers (unpublished and published) together into Exploring Affect for Cambridge Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction. He worked with Paul Ekman and Klaus Scherer to develop a structure for the book that would synthesize his theory of emotion. Unfortunately, he died before he was able to complete the process. Virginia Demos, who knew Professor Tomkins well, took on the enormous task of compiling the papers and writing connective material for the book. This volume of Tomkins selected writings on affect brings together his works of four decades and makes them available at a more receptive time in the field. It is a treasure trove of provocative, insightful and relevant ideas.
 

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Silvan Tomkinss affect theory
17
Biography and autobiography
27
Evolution of the affect system
64
Modifications in the theory 1978
86
Ideology as part of the Tomkins legacy
101
Ideology and affect
109
The socialization of affect and the resultant ideoaffective
168
The ideology of research strategies
196
The rise fall and resurrection of the study of personality
303
Script theory
312
Revisions in script theory 1990
389
The varieties of shame and its magnification
397
Silvan Tomkinss human being theory
415
The cognitive system
425
The interrelationships between
441
Personality theory and social science
468

Silvan Tomkins and facial expression
209
What and where are the primary affects? Some evidence
217
The phantasy behind the face
263
A grand theory of personality
295

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