Emotion and personality I

Psychological Aspects

Arnold, Magda B. 1960. Emotion and personality: Psychological Aspects. Vol. I. 1 ed. New York: Columbia University Press.

This work, which has been divided into two volumes for the sake of greater convenience to the reader, represents an attempt to survey the area of emotion and bring some order into a long neglected field. There is no adequate theory of emotion today, that is, no theory that can integrate the psychological, neurological, and physiological aspects of affective phenomena and place emotion in its proper perspective as a factor in personality organization. To formulate such a theory, it is necessary to review and evaluate the explanations given thus far, and to see what can be accepted in the light of recent research.