The Science of Sadness
A New Understanding of Emotion
$137.46
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2024
Summary
The Science of Sadness proposes an original scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia, advocating a unique ethological approach to these familiar, woeful emotions. One of the leading scholars in the psychology of music and music cognition, David Huron draws on hundreds of studies from physiology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts to resolve long-standing problems that have stymied modern emotion research. A careful examination of sadness-related behav…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547772 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547775 |
| Author: | David Huron |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“This splendid volume sets forth a comprehensive and persuasive account of anything anyone would want to know about the family of emotions including sadness, grief, melancholy, etc., and the emotional displays that may attend them, especially weeping….thoroughly researched….deeply knowledgeable….an engagingly written master class in sadness…. likely to be seen as a milestone in the study of emotion.”
—Choice
“David Huron presents a thorough yet approachable and captivating study of the nature of sadness from an ethological perspective….he successfully integrates hundreds of studies from diverse fields such as neurology, psychology, biology, philosophy, physiology, and anthropology….an excellent example of how to study the nature of emotions from an interdisciplinary perspective.”
—H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online
About The Author
David Huron
David Huron is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Music and at the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at The Ohio State University. His previous books include Sweet Anticipation and Voice Leading (both MIT Press).
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