Communication and Affect
A Comparative Approach
Published on 10. May 2014
170 pages
978-1-4832-6588-9 (ISBN)
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Communication and Affect: A Comparative Approach examines the communication of affective or emotional feelings from a broad phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspective. The book presents basic research findings and theoretical orientations with regards to affective responses and communication involving humans, machines, chimpanzees, monkeys, dogs, and rodents. Comprised of seven chapters, this volume begins with a discussion on the development of love in primates throughout its entire sequential course, from the mother-infant stage of pious, proper propinquity to the adult stage of seasoned, salacious, seductive success. In all the stages of love, much of the essential social information is supplied by unlearned communications which are rapidly overlaid by a veneer of learning. Subsequent chapters explore attachment and dependence; signs of language in children and chimpanzees; affective aspects of aesthetic communication; the communication of affect and the possibility of human-machine interaction as a dyad; and development of affect in dogs and rodents. This book should be of use to psychologists, linguists, and educators interested in the evolution and development of communication and affect in mammals.
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List of ContributorsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe Language of Love The Language of Basic Trust The Language of Play The Language of Lust Summary ReferencesAttachment and Dependence: Some Strategies and Tactics in the Selection and Use of Indices for Those Concepts Introduction Some Frequently Employed Indices of Attachment or Dependence Assumptions Often Underlying the Use of Attachment and Dependence Indices Some Considerations Regarding the Number and Types of Indices to Employ The Empirical Literature and Attachment-Dependence Indices Recapitulation ReferencesTwo Problems in Cognition: Symbolization, and From Icon to Phoneme Symbolization: More Primitive Than Language From Icon to Phoneme ReferencesThe Signs of Language in Child and Chimpanzee The Signs of Language Structure and Well Formedness Language Experiments with Chimpanzees Language in a Different Mode The Sign Itself Preliminary Experimental Data: Memory Tests Observations on Sign as a First Language ReferencesAffective Aspects of Aesthetic Communication Experiments with Visual Patterns Experiments with Single Sounds Experiments with Sound Sequences Interestingness, Pleasingness, and Exploration Experiments on Affective Responses to Poetry Conclusions ReferencesThe Communication of Affect and the Possibility of Man-Machine as a New Dyad Experiment 1 Experiment 2 ReferencesDevelopment of Affect in Dogs and Rodents Introduction Development of Distress Vocalization in the Dog Development of Affect in Infant Rodents Discussion ReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
