Drs. James W. Kalat and Michelle N. Shiota wrote Emotion in response to a growing need for a broad-based text on the topic. Now in its Fourth Edition, this text includes the most recent research to reflect new thinking about the area of emotion and motivation, and surveys both theoretical and practical topics ranging from neuroscience to development and culture. It also includes a strong emphasis on research methods and measurement. Blending unprecedented scholarship with a friendly and accessible writing style, this text resonates with students by making the study of emotion both interesting and relevant. Emotion, Fourth Edition, addresses the questions undergraduates are most likely to ask: Why do we have emotions? How do they affect our lives? And how can we improve emotional well-being?

Michelle (Lani) Shiota received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D from UC Berkeley in Social and Personality Psychology. She completed her post-doctoral training in the Berkeley Psychophysiology Lab. She is an Associate professor of social psychology at Arizona State University where she founded her lab, Shiota Psychophysiology Laboratory for Affective Testing (SPLAT lab) which investigates several basic questions regarding emotion, using a multi-method approach that integrates physiological, behavioral, cognitive, narrative, and questionnaire measures of emotional experience and its implications for social interaction.

Sarah Rose Cavanagh is an Associate Professor of Psychology and an Associate Director for Grants and Research for the CTE. She received her B.A. from Boston University in Psychology, she then went on to get her M.S. and Ph.D. from Tufts University in Experimental Psychology. At Tufts, her focus was in: Attentional Deployment as Emotion Regulation: Implications for Dysphoria & Subjective Well-Being.
As a new co-author on Emotion, she will add more important research on Motivation a subject that is often taught in conjunction with emotion in a majority of college courses. Cavanagh's contribution will help us to compete with Reeve, Understanding Emotion & Motivation.