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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2010
      January 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511663994
      9780521443715
      9780521448321
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511663994
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.935kg, 540 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.705kg, 540 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Psychology
      Series:
      Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Psychology
    Series:
    Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
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    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 Several years before his death, Professor Tomkins agreed to bring his papers (unpublished and published) together into Exploring Affect for Cambridge Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction.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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    "...an edited volume of Tomkins's selected writings is of such great value. Though the task was no doubt arduous, E. Virginia Demos has selected and edited a perspicuous account of Tomkins's nearly 50 years of scholarship." Ed de St. Aubin, Contemporary Psychology

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