James Averill

Social Psychology

Books

Averill, J. R. (Ed.) (1976). Patterns of psychological thought: Readings in classical and contemporary texts. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation.

Averill, J. R. (1982). Anger and aggression: An essay on emotion. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Averill, J. R., Catlin, G., & Chon, K. K. (1990). Rules of hope. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Averill, J. R., & Nunley, E. P. (1992). Voyages of the heart: Living an emotionally creative life. New York: The Free Press.

Selected Articles and Chapters (electronic copies of the following are available, send requests to jra@)umass.edu)

Averill, J. R. (1974). An analysis of psychophysiological symbolism and its influence on theories of emotion. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 4, 147-190. Reprinted in R. Harré & W. G. Gerrod (Eds.) (1996). The emotions: Social, cultural and biological dimensions (pp. 204-228). London: Sage.

Averill, J. R. (1980). A constructivist view of emotion. In R. Plutchik and H. Kellerman (Eds.), Emotion: Theory, research and experience: Vol. I. Theories of emotion (pp. 305-339). New York: Academic Press. Reprinted in: Halberstadt, A. G., & Ellyson, S. L. (Eds.) (1990). Social psychology readings: A century of research (pp. 143-156). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Averill, J. R. (1984). The acquisition of emotions during adulthood. In C. Z. Malatesta & C. Izard (Eds.), Affective processes in adult development (pp. 23-43). Beverly Hills: Sage. Reprinted in: R. Harré (Ed.) (1986). The social construction of emotions. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Averill, J. R. (1985). The social construction of emotion: With special reference to love. In K. Gergen & K. Davis (Eds.), The social construction of the person (pp. 89-109). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Averill, J. R. (1987). The role of emotion and psychological defense in self-protective behavior. In N. Weinstein (Ed.), Taking care: Why people take precautions (pp. 54-78). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Averill, J. R., & Nunley, E. P. (1988). Grief as an emotion and as a disease. Journal of Social Issues, 44, 79-95. Reprinted in: M. S. Stroebe, W. Stroebe, & R. O. Hansson (Eds.) (1993), The handbook of bereavement (pp. 77-90). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Averill, J. R. (1989). Stress as fact and artifact: An inquiry into the social origins and functions of some stress reactions. In C. D. Spielberger, I. G. Sarason, & J. Strelau (Eds.), Stress and anxiety (Vol. 12, pp. 15-38). Washington, DC: Hemisphere.

Averill, J. R. (1990). Inner feelings, works of the flesh, the beast within, diseases of the mind, driving force, and putting on a show: Six metaphors of emotion and their theoretical extensions. In D. E. Leary (Ed.), Metaphors in the history of psychology (pp. 104-132). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Averill, J. R. (1991). Emotions as episodic dispositions, cognitive schemas, and transitory social roles: Steps toward an integrated theory of emotion. In D. Ozer, J. M. Healy, Jr., & A. J. Stewart (Eds.), Perspectives in personality (Vol. 3a, pp. 139-167). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Averill, J. R. (1991). Intellectual emotions. In C. D. Spielberger, I. G. Sarason, Z. Kulcsár, & G. L. Van Heck (Eds.), Stress and anxiety (Vol. 14, pp. 3-16). Washington, DC: Hemisphere. Reprinted in R. Harré & W. G. Gerrod (Eds.), The emotions: Social, cultural and biological dimensions (pp. 24-38). London: Sage.

Averill, J. R. (1992). William James's other theory of emotion. In M. E. Donnelly (Ed.), Reinterpreting the legacy of William James (221-229). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Morgan, C., & Averill, J. R. (1992). True feelings, the self, and authenticity: A psychosocial perspective. In D. D. Franks & V. Gecas (Eds.), Social perspectives on emotion (Vol. 1, pp. 95-124). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Averill, J. R. (1993). Illusions of anger. In R. B. Felson & J. T. Tedeschi (Eds.), Aggression and violence: Social interactionist perspectives (pp. 171-192). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Averill, J. R. (1997). The emotions: An integrative approach. In R. Hogan & J. A. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology (pp. 513-541). San Diego: Academic Press.

Averill, J. R., Stanat, P., & More, T. A. (1998). Aesthetics and the environment. Review of General Psychology, 2, 153-174.

Averill, J. R. (1999). Creativity in the domain of emotion. In T. Dalgleish; M. J. Power (eds.), Handbok of cogntion and emotion (pp. 765-782). Chichester, England: John Wiley & sons.

Averill, J. R. (1999). Spirituality: From the mundane to the meaningful--and back. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 18, 101-126.

Averill, J. R. (1999). Individual differences in emotional creativity: Structure and correlates. Journal of Personality, 67, 331-371.

Averill, J. R., & More, T. A. (2000). Happiness. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (2nd ed.) (pp. 666-676). New York: Guilford Publications.

Averill, J. R. (2000). Intelligence, emotion and creativity: From trichotomy to triunity. In R. Bar-On & D. A. Parker (Eds.), Handbook of emotional intelligence (pp. 277-298). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Averill, J. R. (2001). The rhetoric of emotion, with a note on what makes great literature great. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 19, 5-26.

Averill, J. R., Chon, K. K., & Hahn, D. W. (2001). Emotions and creativity, East and West. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 4, 165-183.

Averill, J. R. (2002). Emotional creativity: Toward "spiritualizing the passions." In C. R. Snyder & S.J. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology (pp. 172-185). New York: Oxford University Press.

Long, C. R., & Averill, J. R. (2003). Solitude: An exploration of benefits of being alone. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 33, 21-44.

Averill, J. R. (2004). A tale of two snarks: Emotional intelligence and emotional creativity compared. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 228-233.

Averill, J. R., Sundararajan, L. (2004). Hope as rhetoric: Cultural narratives of wishing and coping. In J. Eliott (Ed.), Interdisciplinary perspectives on hope (pp. 127-159). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Averill, J. R. (2005). Emotions as mediators and as products of creative activity. In J. Kaufman & J. Baer (Eds.), Creativity across domains: Faces of the muse. (pp. 225-243). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Averill, J. R., & Sundararajan, L. (2006). Passion and qing: Intellectual histories of emotion, West and East. In K. Pawlik, & G. d’Ydewalle (Eds.), Psychological concepts: An international historical perspective (pp. 101-139). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Long, C., More, T. A., & Averill, J. R. (2006). The subjective experience of solitude. In Proceedings of the 2006 northeastern recreation research symposium (pp. 67-76). Burlington, VT: U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station.

Averill, J. R. (2007). Together again: Emotion and intelligence reconciled. In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner, & R. D. Roberts, R. D. (Eds). Emotional intelligence: Knowns and unknowns (pp. 49-71). New York: Oxford University Press.

Sundararajan, L., & Averill, J. R. (2007). Creativity in the everyday: Culture, self, and emotions. In R. Richards (Ed.), Everyday creativity and new views of human nature (195-220). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Averill, J. R. (2009). Emotional creativity: Toward “spiritualizing the passions.” (2nd ed.) In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology (pp. 249-257). New York: Oxford University Press.

Averill, J. R., & Nunley, E. P. (2010). Neurosis: The dark side of emotional creativity. In A. Cropley, D. Cropley, J. Kaufman, & M. Runco (Eds.), The dark side of creativity (pp. 255-276). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Averill, J. R. (2011). Ten questions about anger that you may never have thought to ask In F. Pahlavan (Ed.), Multiple facets of anger: Getting mad or restoring justice? (pp. 1-25). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Averill, J. R. (2012). What should theories of emotion be about? In P. Zachar, & R. D. Ellis (Eds), Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell (pp.203-223). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

Averill, J. R. (2012). The future of social constructionism: Introduction to a special section of Emotion Review. Emotion Review, 4, 215-220.

Averill, J. R., & Sundararajan, L. (2014). Experiences of solitude: Issues of assessment, theory, and culture. In R. J. Coplan & J. C. Bowker (Eds.), Handbook of Solitude: Psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone (pp. 90-108. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Averill ,J. R. (2017, July). The social construction of emotion: Myths and realities (an interview with Andrea Scaratino). Emotion Researcher, ISRE’s Sourcebook for Research on Emotion an Affect, C. Price & E. Walle (Eds.), Accessible at http://emotionresearcher.com/the social construction of emotion/July 2017)