Ebook: 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 of the 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 book to humans and robots. Specific topics covered in these chapters run the gamut from 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.

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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 of the 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 book to humans and robots. Specific topics covered in these chapters run the gamut from 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.

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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 of the 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 book to humans and robots. Specific topics covered in these chapters run the gamut from 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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Emotions Are at the Core of Individual Social Performance....Pages 3-21
Hormonal Modulation of Aggression: With a Focus on Teleost Studies....Pages 23-47
Emotional Birds—Or Advanced Cognitive Processing?....Pages 49-62
Why Do Dolphins Smile? A Comparative Perspective on Dolphin Emotions and Emotional Expressions....Pages 63-85
Play and Emotion....Pages 87-112
The Use of Emotion Symbols in Language-Using Apes....Pages 113-127
Animal Aesthetics from the Perspective of Comparative Cognition....Pages 129-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
The Unique Human Capacity for Emotional Awareness: Psychological, Neuroanatomical, Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives....Pages 165-205
The Development of Mentalizing and Emotion in Human Children....Pages 207-222
Emotion, Personality, and the Frontal Lobe....Pages 223-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Origin and Evolution of Consciousness and Emotion: Has Consciousness Emerged from Episodic Memory?....Pages 245-264
The Logic of Memory and the Memory of Logic: Relation with Emotion....Pages 265-276
Conclusions: Emotions (and Feelings) Everywhere....Pages 277-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-283

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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 of the 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 book to humans and robots. Specific topics covered in these chapters run the gamut from 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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Emotions Are at the Core of Individual Social Performance....Pages 3-21
Hormonal Modulation of Aggression: With a Focus on Teleost Studies....Pages 23-47
Emotional Birds—Or Advanced Cognitive Processing?....Pages 49-62
Why Do Dolphins Smile? A Comparative Perspective on Dolphin Emotions and Emotional Expressions....Pages 63-85
Play and Emotion....Pages 87-112
The Use of Emotion Symbols in Language-Using Apes....Pages 113-127
Animal Aesthetics from the Perspective of Comparative Cognition....Pages 129-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
The Unique Human Capacity for Emotional Awareness: Psychological, Neuroanatomical, Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives....Pages 165-205
The Development of Mentalizing and Emotion in Human Children....Pages 207-222
Emotion, Personality, and the Frontal Lobe....Pages 223-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Origin and Evolution of Consciousness and Emotion: Has Consciousness Emerged from Episodic Memory?....Pages 245-264
The Logic of Memory and the Memory of Logic: Relation with Emotion....Pages 265-276
Conclusions: Emotions (and Feelings) Everywhere....Pages 277-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-283
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