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More than 40 years have elapsed since I was a psychology student at the University
of Warsaw and wrote a seminar paper on temperament, specifically, on Teplov’s
contribution to this field. My first published paper, which appeared in 1958, was…

The twin needs to raise educational standards for all and to improve access to educational opportunities for the most vulnerable members of society, continue to be major challenges facing educators throughout the world. The persistent link between…

Why is it so hard to extend the same kindness to ourselves
that many of us gladly offer to others? Maybe it’s because
in our conventional way of thinking in the West we tend
to view compassion as a gift, and bestowing it on ourselves seems…

The topic of emotion regulation has now come into its own. Books, articles, and conferences related to emotion regulation seem to be everywhere. This growing interest is reflected in citation trends. As shown in Figure P.1, until the early 1990s,…

Emotions have widespread effects in organizations and underlie a broad range of dynamics in organizations. This volume explores the role that emotion plays in such diverse organizational phenomena as entrepreneurship, change, service failure, and…

In this book Mark Wynn argues that the landscape of philosophical
theology looks rather different from the perspective of a reconceived
theory of emotion. In matters of religion, we do not need to opt for
objective content over emotional form or…

‘‘In this short history, Keith Oatley captures the current excitement of the ongoing ‘Affect Revolution’ and its historical
antecedents. As psychologists seek to decipher the foundations
of the many emotional values of animate existence,…

The intricacies of anxiety have continued to capture the attention of some of the world’s greatest scientists, scholars, and critical thinkers. In 1953 Rollo May stated in Man’s Search for Himself that the “middle of the twentieth century is…

Evidence suggests that the excessive use of mobile communication technologies may
lead to uncontrollable emotional attachment to the device and various other
problematic behaviours. Therefore, a gap exists in identifying the extent to…