Theory of Affective Dynamics

Emotions and Moods

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20083718
AutoresDolf Zillmann (autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Páginas541-576
Data de publicação2003-05-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoCommunication and Emotion (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781410607584-32
OpenAlexW2921454617
ISBN9781410607584
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

I stand in awe of my academic progeny and some less immediate relations for finding common ground for this Festschrift in the contestable concept of emotion. Might I have had a hand in their choice of such focus? In paraphrasing a media-influence cliché, I suspect that with my teachings I probably failed to convince this group of scholars of the merits of my particular theoretical stand on emotion, but I apparently managed to make everybody think about emotion as a key to productive analyses. Be this as it may, I was delighted to learn of their embrace of emotion as an entity that provides a unifying perspective on media influence. Moreover, it took little prodding by the editors to get me to contribute a “keystone statement” on the affections. In fact, I greatly appreciated being given the opportunity to clarify my theorizing on emotion as a principal force in life at large-—and in media influence as well

Cognitive psychology · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology