1: Introduction
2: Modern Perspectives on Mood
3: Arousal: A Basic Element of Mood and Behavior
4: Daily Rhythms of Subjective Energy and Other Biopsychological
Cycles
5: Determinants of Energetic and Tense Arousal, Including
Cognitive-Mood Interactions
6: The Natural Interaction of Energetic and Tense Moods: A
Multidimensional Arousal Model
7: Issues Relating to Formal and Informal Research on Mood
8: Toward an Understanding of Nonpathological Mood States:
Evidence, Speculations, and Applications
Robert E. Thayer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at California
State University, Long Beach. His training is in psychology of
personality with specialties in biopsychology and
psychophysiological approaches to mood, emotion, and personality.
His research is widely cited in the scientific literature, and
recently his work has received a great deal of attention in the
popular literature in relation to the mood effects of walking,
sugar snacking,
and biological cycles.
"This is a courageous and most welcome effort to establish the
concept of mood as an important part of psychology. It reviews the
literature exhaustively, and organizes it in terms of the writer's
own long continued work in this area. He is not afraid to look at
the biological as well as the introspective aspects of moods, and
gives us an integrative model of moods and mood changes which will
dominate research in the coming years." --H.J. Eysenck,
University of London
"Thayer brings together in his book all of the important
perspectives on mood, as represented both in current research and
in historically older concepts, such as arousal. In his review of
the literature Thayer ranges wide, including--although the book is
primarily about normal mood--references, to the mood/cognition
experiments in abnormal psychology which themselves have done much
to advance interest in the topic." --The Psychologist
"Ideally, the publication of this book will not only alert more
people to the existence of Thayer's intriguing theory, but it will
also inspire both researchers who favor his model and those who
oppose it to conduct more empirical work to support their ideas."
--Contemporary Psychology
"This is a courageous and most welcome effort to establish the
concept of mood as an important part of psychology. It reviews the
literature exhaustively, and organizes it in terms of the writer's
own long continued work in this area. He is not afraid to look at
the biological as well as the introspective aspects of moods, and
gives us an integrative model of moods and mood changes which will
dominate research in the coming years." --H.J. Eysenck,
University of London
"Thayer brings together in his book all of the important
perspectives on mood, as represented both in current research and
in historically older concepts, such as arousal. In his review of
the literature Thayer ranges wide, including--although the book is
primarily about normal mood--references, to the mood/cognition
experiments in abnormal psychology which themselves have done much
to advance interest in the topic." --The Psychologist
"Ideally, the publication of this book will not only alert more
people to the existence of Thayer's intriguing theory, but it will
also inspire both researchers who favor his model and those who
oppose it to conduct more empirical work to support their ideas."
--Contemporary Psychology
![]() |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
![]() |