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• Psychology -- Early works to 1850

• The Passions of the Minde in Generall: Corrected, Enlarged, and With Sundry New Discourses Augmented (London: Printed by V. Simmes for W. Burre, 1604), by Thomas Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Tracing the Melanesian Person: Emotions and Relationships in Lihir (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Susan R. Hemer (multiple formats with commentary at Adelaide)
• On Emotional Presentation (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1972), by A. Meinong, trans. by Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi, contrib. by J. N. Findlay (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Susan R. Hemer and Alison Dundon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Feeling and Emotion: A History of Theories (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1937), by H. Norman Gardiner, Ruth Clark Metcalf, and John G. Beebe-Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotions of Normal People (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928), by William Moulton Marston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872), by Charles Darwin (HTML at Brock)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (London: John Murray, 1872; with other editions), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899), by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Focusing on the Emotions of Daily Life: A Guide for Their Maintenance, by Ilan Shalif (HTML at shalif.com)
• The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers, by George Washington Crile
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Workers' Emotions in Shop and Home: A Study of Individual Workers From the Psychological and Physiological Standpoint (Wharton Industrial Research Department research study #18; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932), by Rexford B. Hersey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotion as the Basis of Civilization (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928), by John Hopkins Denison, contrib. by George Foot Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• How You Can Keep Happy (Chicago: American Health Book Concern, 1926), by William S. Sadler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Owen M. Lynch (HTML at UC Press)

• A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme, As it is an Effect of Nature, But is Mistaken by Many for Either Divine Inspiration, or Diabolical Possession (London: Printed by R.D. for T. Johnson, 1655), by Meric Casaubon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Menticulture: or, The A-B-C of True Living (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1895), by Horace Fletcher (Gutenberg text)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)

• Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance (1996), by Harlan Ullman and James P. Wade
  • HTML at af.mil
  • Gutenberg text

• Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), ed. by Anke K. Finger and Manuela Wagner
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Belief in God (second edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by Alfred Williams Momerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Excellent Religion: An Essay on the Relations Existing Between Agnosticism, the Polar Theory of Being, and the Higher Theism (London: Watts and Co., ca. 1890), by George Chetwynd Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Causation, With a Chapter on Belief (London: Longman's Green and Co., 1916), by Charles Arthur Mercier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Study of Natio-Racial Mental Differences (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #3-4; 1926), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at Harvard)

• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Authoritarians (c2006), by Bob Altemeyer (multiple formats with commentary at theauthoritarians.org)

• Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Desire Body, by Max Heindel (PDF at rosicrucian.com)

• Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1994), by Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Zum Problem der Einfühlung (author's doctoral dissertation, in German; Halle: Buchdruckerei des Waisenhauses, 1917), by Edith Stein
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at wordpress.com

• Natural History of Enthusiasm (from the 9th London edition; New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1859), by Isaac Taylor
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA

• The Conquest of Fear, by Basil King, contrib. by Henry C. Link (Gutenberg text)
• Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear, by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• Happiness, As Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought (New York: F. A. Stokes co., c1898), by Horace Fletcher, contrib. by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg text)

• How to Survive the Loss of a Love, by Melba Colgrove, Harold H. Bloomfield, and Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)

• On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v16; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Suzana Milevska (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Shame and Guilt: A Psychoanalytic and a Cultural Study (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, 1953), by Gerhart Piers and Milton B. Singer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rossi Formula for Maximum Happiness: A Philosophy of Life (New York: Exposition Press, c1972), by Emidio J. Rossi (HTML with commentary at Verizon)
• The Anatomy of Happiness (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Martin Gumpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• How You Can Keep Happy (Chicago: American Health Book Concern, 1926), by William S. Sadler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Happiness, As Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought (New York: F. A. Stokes co., c1898), by Horace Fletcher, contrib. by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg text)
• Happiness That Lasts, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Just Be Glad (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Laugh and Live (with a "close-up" of the author; New York: Britton Pub. Co., 1917), by Douglas Fairbanks, contrib. by George Creel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Help Yourself to Happiness (New York and London: Whittlesey House, 1937), by David Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way to Happiness (main text of Scientology-promoted ethical guide; electronic edition), by L. Ron Hubbard (illustrated HTML with commentary at thewaytohappiness.org)

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