Emotions of animals and humans: comparative perspectives

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robot engineers, and artists. A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed, including the notion that humans' sophisticated sensibility, as evidenced by our aesthetic appreciation ofthe arts, is based at least in part on a basic emotional sensibility that is found in young children and perhaps even some non-human animal species. As a result, this book comprises a unique comparative perspective on the study of emotion. A number of chapters consider emotions in a variety of animal groups, including fish, birds, and mammals. Other chapters expand the scope of the bookto humans and robots. Specific topics covered in these chapters run the gamutfrom lower-level emotional activity, such as emotional expression, to higher-level emotional activity, such as altruism, love, and aesthetics. Taken as a whole, the book presents manifold perspectives on emotion and provides a solid foundation for future multidisciplinary research on the nature of emotions. .

• ISBN: 978-4-431-54122-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 31/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés