books about: affective     books:       Piaget's Theory of Cognitive and Affective Development: Foundations of Constructivism (Allyn & Bacon Classics ... Barry J. Wadsworth Allyn & Bacon, 2003             Affective Computing6 reviews Rosalind W. Picard The MIT Press, 2000 The missing ingredient for true artificial intelligence A fascinating book with many implications for the fields of artifical intelligence and human-computer interaction. Picard provides a rich background on modern research in emotion and puts forth compelling arguments for the need to incorporate affective abilities in computers as, perhaps, the only way to allow them to respond intelligently to their environment and make rational decisions. An ...             The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social Duke University Press, 2007 “The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects—among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbiology, thermodynamics, information sciences, and cinema ...             Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Series in Affective Science)10 reviews Jaak Panksepp Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 An Excellent Foundation, Despite Its Age It often astonishes me how many of my colleagues continue to argue that emotions are no more than simple reflexes that probably do not even exist in animals. Yet anyone who spends much time with animals constantly observes sophisticated reasoning and highly developed emotions. And it is difficult to try and reduce the sometimes devastating consequences of emotional disturbances in people with ...             Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment2 reviews George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, ... University Of Chicago Press, 2000 Why Emotion Improves Political Participation. For many generations, both academia in various disciplines and journalism in the news and editorial departments have widely adhered to the idea that the ideal citizen is detached, disinterested, and well-informed. This ideal has persisted despite the generally observable phenomenon that people who are detached or disinterested very frequently lack the motivation to become well-informed. The ...             Managing Bipolar Affective Disorder Gary Sachs Science Press, 2004 1. Introduction to the Collaborative Care Model 2. Basics of Bipolar Disorder 3. Acute Mania Pathway 4. Bipolar Depression Pathway 5. Relapse Prevention Pathway 6. Rapid Cycling Pathway 7. Suicide Prevention 8. Pratical Therapeutics Appendices             Emotion, Social Relationships, and Health (Series in Affective Science) Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 This volume brings together, for the first time, inquiries into the size and proximity of social networks and emotion in social relationships to advance understanding of how emotion in significant social relationships influences health. The collection integrates knowledge from those with expertise in mapping the nature of emotional experience in human relations with those who are linking social ties to health outcomes, and those who explicate ...             Winter Blues, Revised Edition: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder17 reviews Norman E. Rosenthal The Guilford Press, 2006 A life-transforming book - five stars! As someone who has long suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder, I can personally attest to the fact that Dr. Norman Rosenthal's seminal work has been instrumental in helping me cope with and ultimately overcome the winter blues. Dr. Rosenthal is an insightful, provocative, and engaging author, with a rare gift for explaining complex scientific ideas in a manner that is accessible to all. I ...             Piaget's Theory of Cognitive and Affective Development/Foundations of Constructivism (5th Edition) Barry J. Wadsworth Allyn & Bacon, 1996             Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Methods, Research (Series in Affective Science) Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 The scientific study of emotion has long been dominated by theories emphasizing the subjective experience of emotions and their accompanying expressive and physiological responses. The processes by which different emotions are elicited has received less attention, the implicit assumption being that certain emotions arise automatically in response to certain types of events or situations. Such an assumption is incompatible with data showing that ...             Seasonal Affective Disorder For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness))3 reviews Laura L., PhD Smith, Charles H., PhD Elliott For Dummies, 2007 Very Informative and helpful There aren't many books on this subject, and this is certainly the best one I have come across. Well researched, and well written; the authors do a good job at communicating not only the causes and effects of SAD, but proven and innovative therapies to help people through what is a wide-spread disorder. The authors also do a good job at making the content simple and engaging for different ...             Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Self-Help and Treatment2 reviews Fiona Marshall, Peter Cheevers Hunter House, 2003 Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder I found this book to be helpful. Somebody finally put into words what I feel. It was like reading about my life. I gave it to my husband to read also, so that he would understand what I am going through.             Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns (SERIES IN AFFECTIVE SCIENCE)1 review Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 The real deal on EI The real deal is that emotional intelligence is much more complicated than books like Dan Goleman's state. This volume gives the state of the art. Various authors poke and pull at what is really known through various studies. The takeaway considering the construct known as 'emotional intelligence' is the lack clarity as to both what can be measured and how you might conduct such measurement. ...             Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook II: Affective Domain (The Classification of Educational Goals) David McKay Company, Inc., 1956             Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship ... Leela Gandhi Duke University Press, 2006 “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy . Forster’s epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the “friend” stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities , to the hitherto neglected ...             Social Relationships: Cognitive, Affective and Motivational Processes (Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology) Joseph P. Forgas, Julie Fitness Psychology Press, 2008 Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species - our personal relationships are of immense interest to us and are a key factor in achieving happiness and well being. From the moment of birth, humans crave love and intimacy and we devote much energy to creating and maintaining successful personal relationships throughout our personal and our working lives. However, modern industrialized societies present a particularly challenging ...             Handbook of Affective Disorders, Second Edition1 review The Guilford Press, 1992 Dense, technical, broad but sometimes too shallow This is one dense and technical book. It is, as advertised, a handbook -- if you have a question about depression or mania, at least the beginnings of an answer can be found here. Every topic related to affective disorders -- defining the disorders, their course and treatment, etiology, social aspects, biological aspects, psychodynamics, etc. -- is given some space. 42 chapters by a variety ...             The Development of Social Engagement: Neurobiological Perspectives (Series in Affective Science) Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 The Development of Social Engagement, edited by Peter J. Marshall and Nathan A. Fox, brings together some of the latest research on social engagement processes across a range of life stages and species. The opening chapters provide overviews of cutting-edge research on social engagement in areas such as temperament, face processing, joint attention, language development, and early social cognition in humans. Subsequent chapters address ...             Bodily Sensibility: Intelligent Action (Series in Affective Science) Jay Schulkin Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 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 ...              search for books anticolonial, appraisal, classification, communities, computing, constructivism, development, education, educational, emotional, engagement, everything, fin-de-siècle, foundations, friendship, intelligence, intelligent, motivational, neurobiological, neuroscience, objectives, perspectives, political, processes, psychology, radicalism, relationships, sensibility, theorizing, treatment books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen toys & games: Gazillion Bubbles 1840ML Impressum - about us get your own free shoutbox