Understanding Events: Affect and the Construction of Social Action

by David R. Heise

Book Overview

It is Professor Heise's premise that the psychology of affect theoretically governs common social actions, such as those of a patient toward a doctor or a mother toward a child. Human behaviour, he argues, normally promotes the maintenance of a steady emotional state. Should events produce undue strain, the individual attempts to anticipate subsequent developments, formulate a course of action and create new events designed to confirm his established...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521295440
• ISBN13: 9780521295444
• Release Date: November 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"