{"product_id":"emotion-and-adaptation-9780195069945","title":"Emotion and Adaptation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark work  Richard Lazarus -- one of the worlds foremost authorities -- offers a comprehensive treatment of the psychology of emotion  its role in adaptation  and the issues that must be addressed to understand it. The work provides a complete theory of emotional processes  explaining how different emotions are elicited and expressed  and how the emotional range of individuals develops over their lifetime. The authors approach puts emotion in a central role as a complex  patterned  organic reaction to both daily events and long-term efforts on the part of the individual to survive  flourish  and achieve. In his view  emotions cannot be divorced from other functions--whether biological  social  or cognitive--and express the intimate  personal meaning of what individuals experience. As coping and adapting processes  they are seen as part of the ongoing effort to monitor changes  stimuli  and stresses arising from the environment. After defining emotion and discussing issues of classification and measurement  Lazarus turns to the topics of motivation  cognition  and causality as key concepts in this theory. Next he looks at individual emotions  both negative and positive  and examines their development in terms of social influences and individual events. Finally  he considers the long-term consequences of emotion on physical health and well-being  and the treatment and prevention of emotional dysfunction. The book draws together the relevant research from a wide variety of sources  and distills the authors pioneering work in the field over the last forty years. As a comprehensive treatment of the emotions  the book will interest students  clinicians  and researchers involved in personality  social and clinical psychology  as well as cognitive and developmental psychology. It may also be used as a supplemental textbook in courses on the psychology of adjustment  emotion  and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647080783925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195069943","price":62.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195069945.jpg?v=1781688108","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/emotion-and-adaptation-9780195069945","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}