Lazarus is the Dean of Stress & Emotion Research. This book is a compilation of his life's work in Emotion. It should be the center piece of our developing program in emotion.

Contents: Preface. Prologue: General Introduction: Issues That Make a Lifetime of Research Come Together. Part I: Starting Out With a Bang: My Dissertation.Part II: Why Psychologists Argue: Perennial Epistemological Issues. The Revolt of the 1940s and 1950s: Individual Differences in Motivation and Defense Influence Perception. The Ancient Greeks Started It: Relations Among Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion. The Unconscious. Part III: The Transition From Laboratory to Field Research. Arousing Stress by Motion Picture Films. An Early Field Study. Stress and Coping Theory and Research. Part IV: The Clinical Applications of Stress and Coping. Focus on Denial. Focus on Daily Hassles. Focus on Psychotherapy. Focus on Job Stress. Focus on War and Peace. Part V: Expanding Stress and Coping to the Emotions. The Utility of the Emotions in the Study of Adaptation. Coping in Emotion. Epilogue.