Silvan Tomkins was one of the most influential theorists on emotion and emotional expression. Over a period of forty 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 expressions. Virginia Demos has undertaken the enormous task of compiling Professor Tomkins' papers and writing connective material for this volume, which brings together his works of four decades and makes them available at a more receptive time in the field. It is a rich compilation of insightful and relevant ideas appropriate for researchers and graduate students in personality and social psychology.
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"...an edited volume of Tomkins's selected writings is of such great value. Though the task was no doubt arduous, E. Virginia Demos has selected and edited a perspicuous account of Tomkins's nearly 50 years of scholarship." Ed de St. Aubin, Contemporary Psychology
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Over a period of forty years--until his death in 1991--Silvan Tomkins, one of the most creative theorists on emotion and emotional expression, developed a set of original, important ideas about the nature of affect and its relationship to cognition and personality.
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Throughout much of his professional life Silvan Tomkins organized his work around the central concern of understanding human motivation, or as he expressed it, in the lead paper of this section on affect theory, he was engaged in a love affair with an idea: "What do human beings really want?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
verbalized ideology, sedative script, affluence scripts, nuclear subscripts, inverse archaeology, affect management scripts, innate scripts, negative affect scenes, norm identifier, sedative smoker, distress socialization, nuclear script, posed affect, addictive script, innate activators, recurrent polarity, voluntary simulation, innate activation, commitment scripts, affective amplification, nuclear scene, psychological magnification, magnification advantage, sedative act, own activator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silvan Tomkins, New York, Picture Arrangement Test, United States, Carroll Izard, Paul Ekman, Nebraska Symposium, New Guinea, Springer Publishing Company, American Psychological Association, Eugene O'Neill, Fisher Test, Garden of Eden, Middle Ages, University of Nebraska Press, World War, Differential Magnification of Affects, Rutgers University, The Study of Lives New!
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Throughout much of his professional life Silvan Tomkins organized his work around the central concern of understanding human motivation, or as he expressed it, in the lead paper of this section on affect theory, he was engaged in a love affair with an idea: "What do human beings really want?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
verbalized ideology, sedative script, affluence scripts, nuclear subscripts, inverse archaeology, affect management scripts, innate scripts, negative affect scenes, norm identifier, sedative smoker, distress socialization, nuclear script, posed affect, addictive script, innate activators, recurrent polarity, voluntary simulation, innate activation, commitment scripts, affective amplification, nuclear scene, psychological magnification, magnification advantage, sedative act, own activator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silvan Tomkins, New York, Picture Arrangement Test, United States, Carroll Izard, Paul Ekman, Nebraska Symposium, New Guinea, Springer Publishing Company, American Psychological Association, Eugene O'Neill, Fisher Test, Garden of Eden, Middle Ages, University of Nebraska Press, World War, Differential Magnification of Affects, Rutgers University, The Study of Lives New!
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- Thematic Apperception Test by Henry A. Murray M.D. on 5 pages
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- The Emergence of Personality (Michigan State University Henry A. Murray lectures in personality) by Joel Aronoff in Front Matter, page 109, and page 312
- Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1978, Volume 26: Human Emotion by Nebraska Symposium on page 86, page 312, and Back Matter
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