An integrated developmental-interactionist theory of emotion, showing how biologically based primary emotions relate to higher-level social, cognitive, and moral emotions.

Ross Buck is Professor of Communication Sciences and Psychology at the University of Connecticut.

Part I. A Biosocial View of Emotion: 1. A developmental-interactionist theory of emotion; Part II. Biological Emotions: A Readout View: 2. Neurochemical systems: evolution and function; 3. Structure of neurochemical systems of emotion; 4. Attachment: the evolution, development, and neurochemistry of sociality; Part III. Higher-Level Emotions: An Ecological-Systems View: 5. Cognitive and linguistic emotions; 6. Social emotions; 7. Moral emotions: the passions of civility.