This volume brings together prominent scientists from various disciplines to examine what has become known as the most-neglected emotion--gratitude.

This book will be the first to bring together some of the leading thinkers on the development of positive affect, creating a new focus for affective neuroscience.

Shame is a cross-disciplinary volume, covering neurogiological, sociological, evolutionary, anthropological, and clinical approaces and focusing on shame as a interpersonal and culturally shaped phenomenon.

This book provides an authoritative assessment and critique of appraisal research. It represents the first full-scale summary of the current state of the art in this area.

Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we should not, in fact, detach these abilities from the body. This work provides an integrative framework for understanding how these abilities are affected by visceral reactions. Schulkin presents provocative neuroscientific research demonstrating that thought is not on one side and bodily sensibility on the other; from a biological point of view, they are integrated. Schulkin further argues that this integration has important implications for judgements about art and music, moral sensibilities, attraction and revulsion, and our perpetual inclination to explain ourselves and our surroundings.