Cognitive science perspectives on personality and emotion /

This book aims to highlight the vigour, diversity and insight of the various cognitive science perspectives on personality and emotion. It aims also to emphasise the rigorous scientific basis for research to be found in the integration of experimental psychology with neuroscience, connectionism and...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Matthews, Gerald
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1997.
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 124.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book aims to highlight the vigour, diversity and insight of the various cognitive science perspectives on personality and emotion. It aims also to emphasise the rigorous scientific basis for research to be found in the integration of experimental psychology with neuroscience, connectionism and the new evolutionary psychology. The contributors to this book provide a wide-ranging survey of leading-edge research topics. It is divided into three parts, on general frameworks for cognitive science, on perspectives from emotion research, and on perspectives from studies of personality traits.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 558 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780444824509
0444824502
9780080529301
0080529305