Affect and Social Behavior

This 1990 book provides an examination of research and theory into the role that emotion plays in influencing social behavior.

Bert S. Moore (Edited by), Alice M. Isen (Edited by)

9780521327688, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 March 1990

288 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.59 kg

Affect and Social Behavior, first published in 1990, provides a comprehensive and integrative examination of research and theory into the role that emotion plays in influencing social behavior. The contributors investigate a number of important domains such as aggression, altruism, romantic attraction, and consumer behavior and the role that affect plays in instigating and regulating these behaviors. The chapters were written by some of the most prominent researchers in the field and they provide a review of research and theory in this important area of study.

1. Vocabularies of emotion E. Berschild
2. Capturing the 'flavor' of behavior: cognition, affect and interpretation J. Koren and N. Cantor
3. Affect and aggression P. A. Bell and R. A. Baron
4. Affect and altruism C. D. Batson
5. Passionate love in intimate relationships E. Hatfield and R. L. Rapson
6. Attitude, affect, and consumer behavior J. Cohen
7. Depression and sensitivity to social information G. Weary
8. Children's strategies for the control of emotion in themselves and others C. L. McCoy and J. C. Masters
9. Affect and social behavior B. S. Moore and A. M. Isen.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]