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The Science of Emotion introduces students and interested readers to how emotions are generated, expressed, regulated, and experienced across cultures and time—and how psychologists and other brain and behavioral scientists study them. This book will familiarize aspiring neuroscientists, social psychologists, and cognitive scientists with tools for mapping behavior to internal states—and internal states to patterns of brain activity. In addition, this book:
- Guides readers through key domains: fear, empathy and altruism, social emotions, attachment and rejection, happiness, and emotion regulation.
- Foregrounds how emotions are elicited and measured, equipping readers to evaluate evidence, interpret results cautiously, and design stronger studies.
- Covers novel areas of emotion research and social life, such as human-AI interaction and emotional expression on social media.
This book offers a guide to a burgeoning field that is as rich and nuanced as the phenomena it describes.
Hongbo Yu is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the director of the Yu Emotion Science (YES) Lab. His work has been published in numerous journals, including Nature Reviews Psychology and Journal of Neuroscience, and has been featured in Psychology Today, the Minds Matter podcast, and NBC News.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Science of Emotion
Chapter 2. Methodology in the Science of Emotion
Chapter 3. Fear: Anatomy of an Emotion
Chapter 4. Empathy and Altruism
Chapter 5. The Psychology and Neuroscience of Social Emotions
Chapter 6. Attachment and Social Rejection
Chapter 7. Happiness
Chapter 8. Emotion Regulation: Strategies, Mechanisms, and Neural Basis
Chapter 9. Expression of Emotion
Chapter 10. Emotion and Other Cognitive Processes
Chapter 11. Cross-Cultural Research on Emotion
Acknowledgments
Index