1. Introduction Anthony S. R. Manstead, Nico H. Frijda and A. H. Fischer; Part I. The Nature of Feelings and Emotions: 2. On the passivity of the passions Robert C. Solomon; 3. Emotions and rationality Jon Elster; 4. Emotions and feelings: a neurobiological perspective Antonio R. Damasio; 5. The concept of an evolved fear Arne Ohman and Stefan Wiens; 6. Deconstructing emotions for the sake of comparative research Richard A. Shweder; 7. From the emotions of conversation to the passions of fiction Keith Oatley; Part II. Basic Psychological Processes in Feelings and Emotions: 8. What we become emotional about Paul Eckman; 9. Feelings integrate the central representation of appraisal-driven response organization in emotion Klaus R. Scherer; 10. Emotions and action Nico H. Frijda; 11. Basic affects and the instinctual emotion system of the brain: the primordial sources of sadness, joy and seeking Jaak Panksepp; 12. Exposure effects: an unmediated phenomenon Robert B. Zajonc; 13. Feeling states in emotion: functional imaging device Joel S. Winston and Raymond J. Dolan; Part III. Feelings and Emotions: The Place of Pleasure: 14. The affect system: what lurks below the surface of feelings? John Cacioppo, Kyle Smith and Jeff Larsen; 15. Unfelt affect and irrational desire: springing from the brain Kent C. Berridge; 16. Some perspective on positive feelings and emotions: positive affect facilitates thinking and problem solving Alice M. Isen; 17. Pleasure, utility and choice Barbara A. Mellers; Part IV. Feelings and Emotions in their Sociocultural Context: 18. The development of individual differences in understanding emotion and mind: antecedents and sequelae Judy Dunn; 19. Emotional intelligence: what do we know? Peter Salovey, Marja Kokkonen, Paulo Lopes and John D. Mayer; 20. Culture and emotion; models of agency as sources of cultural variation in emotion Batja Mesquita and Rose Hazel; 21. Emotions norms, emotion work and social order Peggy A. Thoits; Part V. Feelings, Emotions, and Morality: 22. On the possibility of animal empathy Frans B. M. de Waal; 23. Emotional gifts and 'you first' micropolitics; niceness in the socioemotional economy Candace Clark; 24. Introducing moral emotions into models of rational choice Robert H. Frank; 25. Virtue and emotional demeanor Nancy Sherman; Epilogue: 26. Feelings and emotions:where do we stand? Nico H. Frijda, Anthony S. R. Manstead and A. H. Fischer.