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Tables of Contents for The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
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1. Introduction
The study of emotion
Types of evidence for theories of emotion
Some goals for a cognitive theory of emotion
2. Structure of the theory
The organisation of emotion types
Basic emotions
Some implications of the emotions-as-valenced-reactions claim
3. The cognitive psychology of appraisal
The appraisal structure
Central intensity variables
4. The intensity of emotions
Global variables
Local variables
Variable-values, variable-weights, and emotion thresholds
5. Reactions to events: I. The well-being emotions
Loss emotions and fine-grained analyses
The fortunes-of-others emotions
Self-pity and related states
6. Reactions to events: II. The prospect-based emotions
Shock and pleasant surprise
Some interrelationships between prospect-based emotions
Suspense, resignation, hopelessness, and other related states
7. Reactions to agents
The attribution emotions
Gratitude, anger, and some other compound emotions
8. Reactions to objects
The attraction emotions
Fine-grained analyses and emotion sequences
9. The boundaries of the theory
Emotion words and cross-cultural issues
Emotion experiences and unconscious emotions
Coping and the function of emotions
Computational tractability.