Robert E. Thayer

The Biopsychology of Mood and Arousal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This unique book presents a comprehensive theory of mood states, viewing them as subjective components of two related biological arousal systems, one which people find energizing, and the other which people describe as producing tension.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780195068276
• ISBN-10: 0195068270
• Artikelnr.: 21368814

Autorenporträt

Robert E. Thayer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach. His training is in psychology of personality with specialties in biopsychology and psychophysiological approaches to mood, emotion, and personality. His research is widely cited in the scientific literature, and recently his work has received a great deal of attention in the popular literature in relation to the mood effects of walking, sugar snacking, and biological cycles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Modern perspectives on mood
Arousal: A basic element of mood and behaviour
Daily rhythms of subjective energy and other biopsychological cycles
Determinants of energetic and tense arousal, including cognitive-mood interactions
The natural interaction of energetic and tense moods: A multidimensional arousal model
Issues relating to formal and informal research on mood
Toward an understanding of nonpathological mood states: Evidence, speculations, and applications
Appendices
References.