Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. Interdisciplinary perspectives -- The philosophy of emotions and its impact on affective science -- The history of emotions -- The sociology of emotion -- Emotions in music, literature, and film -- Affect in economic decision making -- Computational models of emotion as psychological tools -- Part II. Biological perspectives -- From pleasure to happiness : "liking" and "wanting" in mind and brain -- Neural fingerprinting : meta-analysis, variation, and the search for brain-based essences in the science of emotion -- Emotion and the autonomic nervous system -- Genetic contributions to affect and emotion -- Olfaction : explicit and implicit emotional processing -- Interoception and emotion : a neuroanatomical perspective -- The affect of taste and olfaction : the key to survival -- Part III. Developmental perspectives -- The development of facial expressions : current perspectives on infant emotions -- The emergence of human emotions -- Understanding emotion -- The development of children's concepts of emotion -- Emotion and aging -- The interplay of motivation and emotion : view from adulthood and old age -- Emotional development in adolescence.

Part IV. Social and personality perspectives -- Gender and emotion : theory, findings, and context -- The cultural psychology of emotions -- Intergroup emotions -- Social functions of emotion and emotion regulation -- Social pain and social pleasure : two overlooked but fundamental mammalian emotions? -- Emotion regulation : a valuation perspective -- Expression of emotion -- Emotional body perception in the wild -- Form and function in facial expressive behavior -- Part V. Cognitive perspectives -- Emotional intelligence -- New light on the affect-cognition connection -- A fundamental role for conceptual processing in emotion -- Memory and emotion -- Language and emotion : putting words into feelings and feelings into words -- Emotion and attention -- Part VI. Health-related perspectives -- Emotions and health -- Neuroendocrine and neuroimmunological mechanisms of emotion -- Emotion disturbances as transdiagnostic processes in psychopathology -- The clinical application of emotion in psychotherapy -- Eat, drink, and be sedentary : a review of health behaviors' effects on emotions and affective states, and implications for interventions -- Stress and emotion : embodied, in context, and across the lifespan -- Emotion-related symptoms of neurodegenerative dementias -- Part VII. Specific emotions -- Fear and anxiety -- Anger -- Self-conscious emotions : embarrassment, pride, shame, guilt, and hubris -- Disgust -- Gratitude and compassion -- Love : positivity resonance as a fresh, evidence-based perspective on an age-old topic -- Sadness and depression -- Empathy.

Recognized as the definitive reference, this handbook brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines to examine one of today's most dynamic areas of research. Coverage encompasses the biological and neuroscientific underpinnings of emotions, as well as developmental, social and personality, cognitive, and clinical perspectives. The volume probes how people understand, experience, express, and perceive affective phenomena and explores connections to behavior and health across the lifespan.