Nico H. Frijda, The Emotions, Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 (with Editions de la Maison des
Sciences de l’Homme, Paris). Open Library gives a median of 544 pages and the
ISBNs above. No DOI was found: Crossref returns none for the book. Only the
year is known, so published: carries it as the first of January. The url:
is the Open Library record, the only stable identifier found. It is a
catalogue entry, not a copy.
Key takeaways
Registered, not read. The following is what read works in the record say the book holds, attributed to them.
- Action readiness and control precedence are the book’s constructs, according to Frijda, Ridderinkhof and Rietveld (LIT-540), who cite it for both. In that paper action readiness is “the key to what we call ‘emotions’”.
- Emotions prepare rapid motor responses, and cognitive change is the modification of appraisal steps. Gross (LIT-554) cites the book for both (pp. 273, 284). He also cites it as the source of the view that emotion regulation is “part and parcel of emotion” (p. 286).
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-03 at the owner’s request, as the canonical citation for
Frijda’s theory. Gross’s review (LIT-554) cites it seven times, and the read
2014 paper (LIT-540) builds on it. Without this entry the record would hold
a citation that resolves to nothing. It is Deferred because it was not read.
LIT-540 is the reading that stands in for it, and that paper extends this
one.
Priority for a reading: medium. The 1988 American Psychologist paper would be the efficient first step for a human reader with library access. It is the short form of the same theory, and it would let the record say what the “laws” are, which nothing read so far states.