Thought and Feeling

Name: Thought and Feeling
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Thought and FeelingCognitive Alteration of Feeling States\nAuthor(s): Richard E. Nisbett\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138539648, 978-1138539648\nSynopsis\nRecently there has been growing awareness and acceptance of the proposition that people do not exist in a world of physically defined forces and events, but in a world defined by their own perceptions, cognitions, conclusions, and imaginations. We respond and react not to some objectively defined set of stimuli, but to our own apperceptions of stimuli that we define subjectively. The original essays in this volume center on one aspect of this process of attribution: The extent to which the perception of events and causes results in the determination, modification, or alteration of emotions, feelings, and affective states.\n\nThis book is divided into five sections, each of which elucidates and extends these theoretical conceptions. Part 1 provides a histori.