In modern society, due to the accelerated pace of life, the heightened awareness of competition, and the increasing environmental problems such as noise and crowding, people's psychological burden has gradually increased. The contrast between material life and spiritual life make

In modern society, due to the accelerated pace of life, the heightened awareness of competition, and the increasing environmental problems such as noise and crowding, people's psychological burden has gradually increased. The contrast between material life and spiritual life makes people often feel that they have lost something while achieving success.

Changes in interpersonal relationships and tensions in interest relationships often make people feel that they are close at hand but feel like they are far away. Various contradictions between ideals and reality, individuals and society, abilities and requirements, desires and morality frequently strike.

Survey data in the "Mental Health White Paper" show that 73.6% of people are in a sub-healthy mental state, 16.1% of people have psychological problems, and only 10.3% of people are mentally healthy. If we understand some psychology, we may be able to skillfully build an emotional fortress for ourselves and avoid being troubled by excessive stress, anxiety and other emotions as much as possible. However, psychology is a highly professional subject, how do ordinary people get started?

Known as "the image and voice of contemporary psychology", the famous psychologist Philip Zimbardo 's masterpiece "Zimbardo General Psychology" was revised for the 8th time in 2022. This book has "better than the novel" It is also known as a good-looking introductory psychology classic. It is a classic psychology textbook, written by Professor Zimbardo who has taught general psychology for nearly 50 years, and has become the first choice for psychology enthusiasts around the world.

This book contains 14 topics that need to be learned for introductory psychology, including mind, biological psychology, feeling and perception, learning, memory, thinking and intelligence, life-span development, state of consciousness, motivation and emotion, personality, and social psychology , psychological disorders, treatment of psychological disorders, and content ranging from stress to health and happiness.

Psychology and Emotion

Baidu Encyclopedia defines emotion as this, which is a general term for a series of subjectivecognitive experiences. It is a person’s attitude experience and corresponding behavioral response to objective things. It is generally believed that emotions are based on individual wishes and needs. is a kind of psychological activity that is intermediary.

We know that happy and good emotions can enhance immunity, while negative and depressed emotions reduce and suppress people's immune function, and even damage the internal organs and the soul, which is what we call depression .

American scholars once analyzed the psychological and health conditions of 1,300 medical university graduates and found that people with melancholy personalities and secluded emotions are more likely to suffer from digestive system and lymphatic system cancers, such as stomach cancer and pancreatic cancer, than people with cheerful personalities. Cancer , etc., the risk of cancer is 15 times higher.

Domestic clinical research also found that breast cancer and middle-aged people suffering from gastric cancer are more prone to sulking and self-depression. Many times, recurring negative emotions are the culprit behind illness.

So what controls our emotions? Our brain is a complex information processing processing system. Each of its modules has a corresponding function. For example, the amygdala that affects our emotions plays a key role in fear and other survival-related emotions. . It works in conjunction with the brain's memory system, the hippocampus, and the memory of previous experiences helps us correct and process our emotional responses to the wall.

In this new version, there is a section called "Try It". This section teaches us how to apply it to our real life by combining psychological knowledge points with actual cases. In addition, also strengthens learners’ application and in-depth thinking of psychological knowledge in daily life through sections such as “Psychology is Useful”, “Write About It” and “Application of Critical Thinking”, and provides insights into various psychology subdivisions. A large number of new studies have been updated to facilitate learners and researchers to update their own knowledge system.

Discover the essential solutions to specific problems through imagination. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes treating the root cause of the disease, and the same goes for psychology. Tracing the source to discover the essence of psychological problems is inseparable from comprehensive psychological knowledge.

The biggest feature of this book is its core concepts and key questions: each sub-topic is led by a common question in life, and core concepts related to the relevant psychological sub-fields are proposed around this question. In answering A series of key questions help learners build their knowledge of the field.

Therefore, this book can not only help psychology students choose your future segmentation direction. This book has been exported to many countries and is an introductory textbook for psychology majors in many colleges and universities, a reference book for general courses for non-psychology majors, and a "stepping stone" for many psychology enthusiasts to understand the world of psychology.

For general psychology enthusiasts, this book is comprehensive and rich in content. It contains a series of interesting psychological topics, including emotion, intelligence, thinking, motivation, personality, parent-child relationship, intimacy, psychological problems, etc. It is not only suitable for psychology learners and researchers in universities and related research institutions, but also for all psychology enthusiasts to read and refer to.