The Science of Emotion introduces students and interested readers to how emotions are generated, expressed, regulated, and experienced across cultures and time--and how psychologists and other brain and behavioral scientists study them. This book will familiarize aspiring neuroscientists, social psychologists, and cognitive scientists with tools for mapping behavior to internal states--and internal states to patterns of brain activity. In addition, this book:

• Guides readers through key domains: fear, empathy and altruism, social emotions, attachment and rejection, happiness, and emotion regulation.
• Foregrounds how emotions are elicited and measured, equipping readers to evaluate evidence, interpret results cautiously, and design stronger studies.
• Covers novel areas of emotion research and social life, such as human-AI interaction and emotional expression on social media.

This book offers a guide to a burgeoning field that is as rich and nuanced as the phenomena it describes.