Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality

Suggestions for Further Reading

suggestions for further reading There are many fine introductions to the study of emotion representing a wide range of academic disciplines. An excellent starting point is Robert Plutchik’s Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology , and Evolution (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association , 2003). Another helpful place to begin is Keith Oatley and Jennifer Jenkins, Understanding Emotions (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996). Those who want to pursue the biological foundations of emotions should begin by consulting the relevant articles in Michael Lewis and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, eds., Handbook of the Emotions, 2nd ed. (New York: Guilford Press, 2000). Among the most important of these articles are Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, ‘‘Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions’’; Joseph LeDoux and Elizabeth Phelps, ‘‘Emotional Networks in the Brain’’; and John Cacioppo, Gary Bernston, Je√ Larsen, Kirsten Poehlmann, and Ti√any Ito, ‘‘The Psychophysiology of Emotion .’’ Further information on the evolutionary-adaptive functions of emotion can be found in Richard Lazarus, Emotion and Adaptation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), and Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996). Additional descriptions of the neurophysiology of emotion can be found in Richard Lane and Lynn Nadel, eds., Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Two foundational texts in the psychological study of emotion are Carroll Izard, The Psychology of Emotions (New York: Plenum Press, 184 further reading 1991), and Paul Ekman, Emotion in the Human Face, 2nd ed. (Cambridge , England: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Of further importance to understanding psychological approaches to emotion are Carroll Izard and Brian Ackerman, ‘‘Motivational, Organizational, and Regulatory Functions of Discrete Emotions,’’ in Lewis and HavilandJones , Handbook of Emotions, and Sylvan Tomkins, ‘‘A√ect as the Primary Motivational System,’’ in Feelings and Emotions, ed. M. Arnold (New York: Academic Press, 1970). An excellent introduction to the theoretical subtleties in the study of emotions is Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, The Subtlety of Emotions (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000). A critique of the biological approach to the study of emotion can be found in Rom Harré, ed., The Social Construction of Emotions (Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1986). Several historical and cultural studies of emotion demonstrate the explanatory value of weak, moderate, or strong constructivist approaches to the study of emotion. A good beginning point is Peter N. Stearns and Carol Z. Stearns, ‘‘Emotionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards,’’ American Historical Review 90 (October 1985): 813–36. A second point of introduction would be Richard A. Shweder and Jonathan Haidt, ‘‘The Cultural Psychology of the Emotions: Ancient and New,’’ in Lewis and Haviland-Jones, Handbook of Emotions. Also recommended are John Corrigan, ed., Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), and John Corrigan, Eric Crump, and John Kloos, Emotion and Religion: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography (Westport , Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000). Among the most important philosophical treatments of the emotions are Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Robert Solomon, The Passions (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976). A more far-reaching perspective on how knowledge concerning both physiological and neurophysiological processes alters our very understanding of philosophy can be found in George Lako√ and Mark Johnson , Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought (New York: Basic Books, 1999). ...