by Peter Bodor

170 pages; $20 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)

L' Hartman Publishers, Hungary.
ISBN: 963-9457-76-0

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This book aims to analyze and uncover certain characteristics and processes of human emotional life and emotional development. Throughout the book a social constructionist framework will be worked out and applied parallel to a developmental perspective. The originality of this approach to emotions represented by the following theoretical and empirical investigations lies in an attempt to adopt a binocular vision of psychology as a discipline which takes as its subject human beings as developing social beings.

This is an important contribution to a constructionist understanding of emotions. Not only does this work make significant connection with philosophical, psychological and social issue related to emotional expression, but offers innovative research on emotional development. Bodor's work is of far-reaching significance and deserving of the widest audience.

Peter Bodor teaches courses on Social Psychology in Budapest, and on Language Acquisition and Linguistic Socialization at the University of Vienna.