Emotions category: 2464 books

Beneath the social mask we wear every day, we have a hidden shadow side: an impulsive, wounded, sad, or isolated part that we generally try to ignore, but which can erupt in hurtful ways. As therapists Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf show in this landmark book, the shadow can actually be a source of emotional...

When we think of psychology, we think of a field dedicated to understanding and curing the dark side of life--addictions, phobias, compulsions, anxieties, and on and on. But there is a field of psychology that looks at the bright side, that considers seriously these questions: What makes life most...

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Paul Ekman’s classic book on reading faces and body language provides the science for highly anticipated Fox TV series Lie to Me. Paul Ekman is a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication. In Telling Lies, he describes how our language, facial expressions, and the way...

How to unclutter your mind – so that you can think straight, think well, think analytically and think creatively – is one of the best-kept secrets that the human race holds.  However, there are untold benefits to uncluttering or emptying your mind of all your thoughts, and to stop at least for...

Do You Have the Life You Want? Each person is entitled to have "the good life." Most don't experience this because of getting caught up in reacting, continually recycling old patterns that keep you stuck and emotionally frozen. By practicing the simple tools in Mindfulness and the Art of...

Attitude Reconstruction is a ForeWord Reviews gold award winner in BOTH Self Help and Psychology, the 2012 winner of the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award in Self Help, winner of the 2012 Nautilus Silver Award for personal growth/self-help/psychology and Indie Excellence Book Awards finalist. This...

Do you lack discipline? It is quite likely you answered yes to this question. Discipline is not something you are born with, you must learn it   Wouldn't it be nice to master your own mind and learn how to be disciplined? I won't lie, some of these tips will be hard to...

Have you ever considered how many opportunities you have missed and how many chances you have wasted by lacking self-confidence when you need it most? Have you ever given up on your plans, important goals, and dreams not because you just decided to focus on something else, but simply because...

**In this groundbreaking relationship book, positive emotions expert Barbara L. Fredrickson gives us an entirely new way of understanding love and appreciating its benefits. “A radically new conception of love.”—The Atlantic** Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the...

Heal small emotional injuries before they become big ones. We all sustain emotional wounds. Failure, guilt, rejection, and loss are as much a part of life as the occasional scraped elbow. But while we typically bandage a cut or ice a sprained ankle, our first aid kit for emotional injuries...

An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games. This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they...

What is an Emotion? Our natural way of thinking about the standard emotions is that the mental perception of some fact excites the mental affection called the emotion, and that this latter state of mind gives rise to the bodily expression. The thesis on the contrary is that the bodily changes follow...

專家公認！情緒科學實驗室認證！透過60個研究，應驗情緒就是成功的契機！ 小心！意志力有額度限制！今天忍住不吃棉花糖，明天暴走狂嗑鹹酥雞！ 掌握三種關鍵情緒，才能突破意志力瓶頸，取得致勝先機。 情緒會唆使我們，只求滿足當下的欲望？降低自制力？ 情緒會欺騙我們，偏袒不正確的選擇？加深後悔程度？ 理論上，我們該相信自己的理性，因為它會用意志力等策略做出合乎道德的選擇。壞消息是，理論和現實是兩回事，每使用一次理性分析，專注度與自制力就會持續下降，提高失敗機率！ 心理學教授大衛‧德斯諾透過大量實驗與研究證實，並不是理性和毅力，而是感激、同理與自豪這三種親社會情緒，能輕鬆改變你的大腦思考模式，提升自制力，並建立更好的人際關係，與成功更靠近！甚至能傳染給別人，讓我們身邊的人也變得更好。 只要稍微調整一下，這些致勝情緒也能協助你和一位非常重要的人合作，獲得長期成功──這個人，就是未來的你！ 〔感激〕 時時提醒我們重視未來的無限可能，克服自私誘惑，和未來的自己合作。 〔同理〕 加強自制力，使人心平氣和、減少鬥爭，幫助未來的自己。 〔自豪〕 提升個人魅力，輕鬆獲得吸引信任、追隨目光，與堅持到底的動力。 【領先全球的心理學研究！各界菁英高度讚賞！】 ●...