Available From UC Press

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.

Hongbo Yu is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the director of the Yu Emotion Science (YES) Lab. His work has been published in numerous journals, including Nature Reviews Psychology and Journal of Neuroscience, and has been featured in Psychology Today, the Minds Matter podcast, and NBC News.