Stress And Emotion

This volume, based on an international conference on current research in Stress And Emotion, Covers, In Four Sections, Theoretical Aspects, perception, cognition and emotion, the physiological and biological Concomitants Of Emotion And Type A Behaviour And Emotion.

Part 1 Theories of stress and emotion: intellectual emotions; reversal Theory And The Structure Of Emotional Experience; Emotions And adaptations; an open-systems perspective; one person's stress is Another Person's Pleasure. Part 2 Perception, Cognition And Emotion: trait anxiety and cognition; need achievement revisited - verification of Atkinson's original "2 X 2 model"; relationships between maturity of moral judgment and state-trait anxiety. Part 3 Physiological and Biochemical Concomitants Of Stress And Emotion: Decreased Impact Of stress - biological and developmental factors in psychopathy; psychophysiological characteristics of anxiety patients; modifications of physiological and subjective responses to stress through heart rate and skin conductance biofeedback; post-dexamethasone serum cortisol Level And Coping. Part 4 Stress, Type A Behaviour And Emotion: perception of anxiety situations in Dutch adolescents - sex and age differences and cross-cultural comparisons; type A components, stress responses, and enforced time wasting and agression; type A behaviour, self-reference and the activation of anger and aggression; anger and anxiety in essential hypertension.