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Producing Veracity in the
Victorian Courtroom

I struggled to maintain the momentum to complete the research and write Energy
Efficiency until one day, I asked a wonderful friend, Joan Honeyfield, if she would
help me. Joan is creative, articulate, talented, and most of all a great charge…

Abduction is a form of reasoning, sometimes described
as “deduction in reverse,” whereby given a rule that
“A follows from B” and the observed result of “A” we
infer the condition “B” of the rule. More generally,
given a theory,…

We’re here to discuss empathy and fairness. In the last few years there have been
dramatic changes in our attitude to concepts such as these. While we have always
known that empathy and fairness describe a vital part of human culture, very few…

Some of the people at the National Institute of Mental Health to
whom this book is dedicated took an interest in my career back
when I was a beginning graduate student in 1955. The others joined in over the years. It has been an amazing span—1955…

Most books, however, treat only one aspect of emotions, such as
emotions and the brain, emotions and well-being, or emotions and
computer agents. This interdisciplinary book presents recent work
on emotions in neuroscience, cognitive science,…

Defenders of economic orthodoxy often argue that asset inflation results from emotional intrusions into a rational world. But emotions are unavoidable. Rational calculations can be based only on the past. Instability continually arises, especially…

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 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,…

Working life ain’t simple any more. Th ere was a time
when you worked hard, your employer looked after you,
and you just carried on until you received your golden
carriage clock on retirement. But that simple career
path is dead. Th ere are…