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What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, And Meanings
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What is an emotion? Can emotion be measured? How can we know if a person is experiencing an emotion?In this sophisticated overview of human emotions, a widely respected psychologist and author addresses the ambiguities and embraces the controversies that surround this intriguing subject. An insightful and lucid thinker, Jerome Kagan examines what exactly we do know about emotions, which popular assumptions about emotions are incorrect, and how scientific study must proceed if we are to uncover the answers to persistent and evasive questions about emotions.Integrating the findings of anthropological, psychological, and biological studies in his wideranging discussion, Kagan explores the evidence for great variation in the frequency and intensity of emotion among different cultures. He also discusses variations among individuals within the same culture and the influences of gender, class, ethnicity, and temperament on a persons emotional patina. In his closing chapter, the author proposes that three sources of evidenceverbal descriptions of feelings, behaviors, and measures of brain statesprovide legitimate but different definitions of emotion. Translating data from one of these sources to another may not be possible, Kagan warns, and those who study emotions must acceptat least for nowthat their understanding is limited to and by the domain of their information.
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