The Emotional Brain Physiology, Neuroanatomy, Psychology, and Emotio
This book deals with the results of theoretical and ex perimental studies of the emotions which my colleagues and I carried out over the last two decades. An interest in the psychology of emotions prompted us to undertake an analysis of the creative lega
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Physiology, Neuroanatomy, Psychology, and Emotion
EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Series Editors Carroll E. Izard, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware and Jerome L. Singer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN: Physiology, Neuroanatomy, Psychology, and Emotion P. V. Simonov EMOTIONS IN PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Carroll E. Izard, ed. FREUD AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY, Volume 1: The Emotional Basis of Mental Illness Helen Block Lewis FREUD AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY, Volume 2: The Emotional Basis of Human Behavior Helen Block Lewis GUIDED AFFECTIVE IMAGERY WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Hanscarl Leuner, Gunther Horn, and Edda Klessmann HUMAN EMOTIONS Carroll E. Izard THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF TIME Bernard S. Gorman and Alden E. Wessman, eds. THE POWER OF HUMAN IMAGINATION: New Methods in Psychotherapy Jerome L. Singer and Kenneth S. Pope, eds. SHYNESS: Perspectives on Research and Treatment . Warren H. Jones, Jonathan M. Cheek, and Stephen R. Briggs, eds. THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Scientific Investigations into the Flow of Human Experience Kenneth S. Pope and Jerome L. Singer, eds.
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Physiology, Neuroanatomy, Psychology, and Emotion
P. V. Simonov
Director, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Physiology Academy of Sciences of the USSR Moscow, USSR
Translated from Russian by
Marie J. Hall
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Simonov, P. V. (Pavel Vasil'evich) The emotional brain. (Emotions, personality, and psychotherapy) Translation of: Emotsional'nyi mozg. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Emotions—Physiological aspects. 2. Brain—Localization of functions. I. Title. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Emotions. 2. Psychophysiology. W L 103 S599e] QP401.S57813 1986 152.4 86-15098 ISBN 978-1-4899-0593-2
ISBN 978-1-4899-0593-2 ISBN 978-1 -4899-0591 -8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-0591-8
This translation is published under an agreement with the Copyright Agency of the USSR (VAAP) © Springer Science+Business Media New York 1986 Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1986 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1986 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher
Contents
Introduction. • •
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What Is Emotion?
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The Reflective-Evaluative Function of Emotions • The Switching Function of Emotion. •••••• The Reinforcing Function of Emotion. • • • • • Compensatory (Substitution) Function of Emotions • The Role of Emotions in Regulating the Size, Density, and Qualitative Composition of a Population. Imitative Behavior as an Example of the Compens
