Emotional topics in personality |  |
Learning ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
| Define emotion, and identify and discuss the three key components of emotions. |
| Distinguish emotion states from emotion traits. |
| Differentiate and discuss the categorical and dimensional approaches to emotions. |
| Differentiate and discuss the content and style of emotional life. |
| Discuss theory and research on happiness and life satisfaction. |
| Discuss what we know about the characteristics of happy people. |
| Discuss the results of research designed to investigate the relationship between income and happiness. |
| Discuss the relationships among personality traits and well-being. |
| Identify and discuss the key elements of an empirically informed program to increase happiness. |
| Discuss theory and research on anxiety (also known as negative affectivity or neuroticism). |
| Discuss Eysenck's biological theory of neuroticism. |
| Discuss several cognitive theories of neuroticism. |
| Discuss theory and research on depression, including the diathesis stress model and Beck's cognitive theory of depression |
| Discuss theory and research on anger-proneness and the potential for hostility, including work on the relationship between Type A personality and heart disease. |
| Discuss theory and research on affect intensity as an emotional style. |
| Discuss how personality researchers assess affect intensity. |
| Discuss the interaction between content and style in emotional life. |
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