[BOOK][B] Exploring affect: the selected writings of Silvan S Tomkins

SS Tomkins - 1995 - books.google.com
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 expressions. Several years before his death, Professor Tomkins agreed to …

[BOOK][B] Exploring affect: The selected writings of Silvan S. Tomkins.

E Demos - 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
This volume is part of a series... designed to present important works on emotion. Silvan
Tomkins's contributions to our understanding of the role of affect in human experience
constitute just such a body of work. Going well beyond Darwin's earlier insights, Tomkins
constructed a comprehensive theory of the biological basis of affects, their distinctive
function within the human being, their interactions with other important human mechanisms
such as cognition, perception, memory, and motor functions, their importance in human …