REQUIREMENTS
- attendance
- reading for every class
- mid-term
- Feb-Mar weekly reading questions answered
- final Exam
- final Project

READINGS:
Boss, P. Ambiguous Loss.
Cassells, C. Swept Away
Text: Cornelius, R. The Science of Emotion.
Debecker, G. The Gift of Fear
Hochschild, A. The Managed Heart
Lewis, M. Shame: The Exposed Self
Pines, A. M. Romantic Jealousy
Tavris, C. Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion

The Basics

Aug. 29 Planning Day
Aug. 31 Chapters 1 and 2 in Cornelius, R. (1996). The Science of Emotion: Research and
Tradition in the Psychology of Emotion. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Sept. 3 Chapter 3
Sept. 5 Chapter 4
Sept. 7 Chapter 5

Sept. 10 Chapters 6 & 7
Sept. 12 Wierzbicka, A. (1994). Emotion, language, and cultural scripts. In S. Kitayama, &
H. R. Markus, Emotion and culture: Empirical studies of mutual influence. Washington, D. C.: APA.
Sept. 14 Emotional Intelligence

Sept. 17 Emotional Intelligence
Sept. 19 Review for "mid-term" on The Science of Emotions
Sept. 21 Mid-term

ANGER
Sept. 24 Tavris, C. Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion
Sept. 26
Sept. 28 Research (choosing a topic; searching Psychinfo)

FEAR
Oct. 1 Marks, I. (1987). The development of normal fear: A review. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 28, 667-697.
Oct. 3 De Becker, G. The Gift of Fear,
Oct. 5 Research (turn in list of all articles ordered; and articles you expect to go get)

SHAME & GUILT
Oct 8 No class (Fall Break)
Oct. 10 Chapters 5-8 in Lewis, M. (1992). Shame: The exposed self. NY: Free Press.
Oct. 12 Shame continued

GRIEF/LOSS/SADNESS
Oct. 15 Freud, S. (1917/1937) Mourning and Melancholia. In J. Rickman (Ed.) A general selection from the works of Sigmund Freud. NY: Doubleday.
Oct. 17 Boss, P. Ambiguous Loss
Oct. 19 Research (Be prepared to show summaries of 10 articles on subject)

EMPATHY
Oct. 22 (Lecture no reading)
Oct. 24 Davis, M. (1994). Empathy: A social psychological approach. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press. (Chapter 2: Evolutionary Origins of Empathic Capacities)
Oct. 26 no class (Professor out of town)

LOVE
Oct. 29 pp. 100-164 in Lewis, T., Amini, F., and Lannon, R. (2000). A general theory of love. NY: Random House
Oct. 31 Fisher, H. (1995). The Nature and Evolution of romantic love. In W. Jankowiak
(Ed.), Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience, NY: Columbia University Press.
Nov. 2 Research (Final check with professor for your measures. Collect data between now and Nov. 14)

PASSION
Nov. 5 Cassells. C. (1984). Swept Away. Chapter 1: A Counterfeit Emotion.
Nov. 7 Plotnikov, L. (1995). Love lust and found in Nigeria and The madness of excess. In W. Jankowiak (Ed.), Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience, NY: Columbia University Press.
Birth, K, & Freilich, M. (1995). Putting romance into systems of sexuality.
In W. Jankowiak (Ed.), Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience, NY: Columbia University Press.
Nov. 9 Research (Setting up the SPSS format)

JEALOUSY
Nov. 12 Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6 (and notes in back and Appendices) in Pines, A. M. (1998). Romantic jealousy: Causes, symptoms, cures. NY: Routledge
Nov. 14 Research (Entering data)
Nov. 16 Research (Analyzing data)

HAPPINESS
Nov. 19 Diener, E. (2000). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and a proposal for a national index. American Psychologist, 55, 34-43.
Salovey, P., Rothman, A. J., Detweiler, J. B., Steward, W. T. (2000). Emotional
states and physical health. American Psychologist, 55, 110-121.

COMMERCIALIZATION OF EMOTION
Nov. 26 Hochschild, A. (1992). The managed heart: Commercialization of Feeling. NY: Free Press.
Nov. 28 Research (Final data analysis)
Nov. 30 3 Presentations (15 minutes each)
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CLASS PRESENTATIONS

Dec. 3 4 presentations (15 minutes each)
Dec. 5 4 presentations (15 minutes each)
Dec. 7 4 presentations (15 minutes each)

Final Exam

Attendance:
You are permitted three absences, excused or not, no matter the reason. After that, your grade goes down a notch (e.g. B+ to a B). Excused absences are the same as unexcused. It doesn't matter if you are going on a field trip, have a note from the nurse, or have gone to a funeral - only three absences.

Mid-term Quiz (in fourth week) (20%)
Final Exam (at the end of the semester) (15%)
Weekly Questions starting Oct. 3 (10 of them): 30%
Presentation of Final Project: 5%
Final project: 30% This project is a semester long research project on an emotion or emotional experience. You can go more into depth on an emotion we already covered, or you can choose something we haven't touched on: religious ecstasy; material envy; boredom; pride; terror; hope; disgust; greed; or gender differences in the experience of an emotion; or age differences in the experiencing of emotion. In this paper you must a) review the literature on this emotion; 2) describe the model you are working in; 3) describe the methodology you chose to use and for what reason including a discussion of its limitations; 4) describe your sample and your tests and measures; 5) describe results; 6) apply these results to the literature you discussed at the beginning of the paper.

Participation helps to slant your grade one way or another if the grading at the end of the semester is close.