num_pages: 448
description: This new textbook is the first book to fully span the fast growing field to research on emotions. It ranges across a broad range of disciplines covering the entire lifespan from infancy to adulthood. Its main theme is that emotions have functions: they set priorities among our concerns and they provide the underlying structure of human friendships to the excitements of sexuality. Understanding Emotions is designed as a textbook for second- and third-year university courses and the text itself is fully supported by introductions and summaries suggestions for further reading plus a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary.
language: English
title: Understanding Emotions
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell