Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S Tomkins

by Silvan S. Tomkins

Book Overview

Silvan Tomkins was one of the most influential theorists on emotion and emotional expression. Over a period of 40 - some years - until his death in 1991 - he developed a set of original, important ideas about the nature of affect and its relationship to cognition and personality. Tomkins dealt with fundamental questions in a fresh and provocative way, establishing affect as a separate, biological system, and providing compelling data on discrete affect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521448328
• ISBN13: 9780521448321
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"