This sourcebook is intended as a reader in the fullest sense of that word: a work that offers researchers and students alike the opportunity to examine the many different aspects and widely divergent approaches to the study of emotion. The contributors include samples of biological, ontogenetic, ethological, psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches.

Questions About Emotion: An Introduction; I: Biological Approach; 1: Emotion: A Neurobehavioral Analysis; 2: Hemispheric Asymmetry and Emotion; 3: Contributions from Neuroendocrinology; II: Developmental Approaches; 4: Levels of Meaning for Infant Emotions: A Biosocial View 1; 5: The Organization of Emotional Development 1; 6: Emotions in Infancy: Regulators of Contact and Relationships with Persons; III: Psychological and Ethological Approaches; 7: Affect Theory *; 8: Emotions: A General PsychoevoIutionary Theory; 9: Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: The Doctoring of Humpty-Dumpty; 10: The Interaction of Affect and Cognition; 11: Thoughts on the Relations Between Emotion and Cognition *; 12: On Primacy of Affect; 13: A Perceptual Motor Theory of Emotion; 14: On the Nature and Function of Emotion: A Component Process Approach; 15: Expression and the Nature of Emotion; 16: Animal Communication: Affect or Cognition?; IV: Sociological and Anthropoligical Approaches; 17: Power, Status, and Emotions: A Sociological Contribution to A Psychophysiological Domain; 18: The Role of Emotion in Social Structure; 19: The Emotions in Comparative Perspective 1