The positive side of negative emotions / edited by W. Gerrod Parrott.

Part I. Specific negative emotions
ch. 1. Can sadness be good for you? : On the cognitive, motivational, and interpersonal benefits of negative affect / Joseph P. Forgas
ch. 2. Anxiety as an adaptive emotion / Adam M. Perkins and Philip J. Corr
ch. 3. Anger is a positive emotion / Ursula Hess
ch. 4. Can negative social emotions have positive consequences? : An examination of embarrassment, shame, guilt, jealousy, and envy / Nicole E. Henniger and Christine R. Harris
Part II. Social and cultural aspects of negative emotions
ch. 5. When negative emotions benefit close relationships / Levi R. Baker, James K. McNulty, and Nickola C. Overall
ch. 6. On the social influence of negative emotional expressions / Gerben A. Van Kleef and Stephane Cote
ch. 7. Listening to negative emotions : how culture constrains what we hear / Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton, Nicole Senft, and Andrew G. Ryder
ch. 8. The function of negative emotions in the Confucian tradition / Louise Sundararajan
Part III. The desirability of negative emotions
ch. 9. Why might people want to feel bad? : Motives in contrahedonic emotion regulation / Maya Tamir and Yockanan Bigman
ch. 10. Negative emotions and the meaningful sides of media entertainment / Mary Beth Oliver, Anne Bartsch, and Tilo Hartmann
ch. 11. The right tool for the job : functional analysis and evaluating positivity/negativity / Julie K. Norem
ch. 12. Feeling, function, and the place of negative emotions in a happy life / W. Gerrod Parrott.