Emotions category: 2464 books

Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category) 2014! A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013! Psychological research shows that our emotions and feelings often guide the moral decisions we make about our own lives and the social groups to...

Emotional Intelligence: How to Improve Your IQ, Achieve Self-Awareness and Control Your Emotions This book provides information about emotional intelligence and its application in real life circumstances. Emotional intelligence is the most important part of personality and career development....

Emotions are tricky things. They unconsciously dictate all of our behaviours and as long as we don’t understand what emotions are and how they work, we will be controlled by them like a puppet. Despite emotions being so unpredictable, there is a way to gain conscious control over them. Emotions control everything BUT once you control emotions, YOU control everything.

There is no need to slow down to de-stress yourself – just let go of your emotional baggage so that you can run faster. Emotions and Stress: How to manage them encourages you to deal with your own stress in a way that allows you to keep moving at the same pace. But first you must ask yourself two...

This bookis an interactive workbook where clients, students, and everyday people can understand and find step by step solutions for regulating of their emotions. Each chapter allows the reader to find out for themselves how they would personally regulate emotions ranging from anger, resentment and...

This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention. Acknowledging the plurality of...

Applying recent psychological and neuropsychological studies of emotions, Erika Wilson explores the role of emotions in major Eastern, Western, and primal religions, as well as in some contemporary spiritual movements. The book tries to answer the following questions: What kinds of emotions and spiritual...

**New York Times Bestseller Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.** Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...

Almost everyone is familiar with IQ, or "Intelligence Quotient", a measurement of intelligence arrived at by tests of reasoning and comprehension. A little less well-known is EQ, which refers to emotional intelligence. We know what emotions are--happiness, sadness, fear, anger, boredom,...

A thoughtful, gleeful encyclopedia of emotions, both broad and outrageously specific, from throughout history and around the world. How do you feel today? Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Do you have the...

One of the leading twentieth-century French existentialist philosophers examines how human emotions shape our existence. In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish,...

Our feelings are one of our most powerful motivating forces. By working with them rather than battling against them, we can utilise their energy to improve our lives. Feelings is a guide to helping you understand both your own emotions and actions and those of other people. In this inspirational and...

As we grow up and learn, we come up with big words. Words are able to describe a phenomenon or pass certain information. In this book we want to look at- what is Emotional Intelligence? Like any other phrase, it is made of words, for these case two words. Each word has a definite meaning. First...

It’s a commonly heard phrase: Stop being so sensitive. These words can be frustrating to hear, and if you are an emotionally sensitive person, they often have the opposite of the desired effect. You cannot simply switch off your emotions like you would a TV show or a radio station playing an annoying...