About Emotion : The Place of emotion in psychology -- The Retreat from radical behaviorism and the rise of cognitivism -- Perspectives on emotion -- The Adaptational encounter as the proper context of emotion -- The Issues and tasks of a theory of emotion -- The Theory in an nutshell -- Issues of Research, Classification, and Measurement : The Variables of emotion -- Emotions as categories or dimensions -- Universals in the emotional response -- A Working emotion classification system.

The Cognitive-Motivational-Relational Theory : The Person- envionment Relationship, Motivation and coping : The Rational for a relational theory -- The Motivational theory -- The Motivational principle -- Emotion as a process -- Coping -- Person-environment relationships bearing on emotions -- Cognition and Emotion : Rationale and a bit of history -- Appraisal -- How meaning is achieved -- Issues of Causality : Overlaps and distinctions among the constructs of mind -- Causality in the emotion process -- Contextualism and mechanism in emotion theory -- Three issues about the causal role of cogition -- Biological universals and sociocultural viability in the emotion process -- Emotion as system of interdependent variables and processes.

Individual emotions : Goal incongruent (negative) emotions : Anger -- Fright-anxiety -- Guilt-shame -- Sadness -- Envy-Jealousy -- Disgust -- Goal Congruent (Positive) and problematic emotions : Happiness/joy -- Pride -- Love/affection -- Relief -- Problematic emotions.