Cognition and Emotion

by Eich, Eric; Kihlstrom, John F.; Bower, Gordon H.; Forgas, Joseph P.; Niedenthal, Paula M.

• ISBN13: 9780195113341
• ISBN10: 0195113349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Recent years have witnessed a revival of research in the interplay between cognition and emotion. The reasons for this renaissance are many and varied. In the first place, emotion theorists have come to recognize the pivotal role of cognitive factors in virtually all aspects of the emotionprocess, and to rely on basic cognitive factors and insight in creating new models of affective space. Also, the successful application of cognitive therapies to affective disorders has prompted clinical psychologists to work towards a clearer understanding of the connections between cognitiveprocesses and emotional problems. And whereas the cognitive revolutionaries of the 1960s regarded emotions with suspicion, viewing them as nagging sources of "hot" noise in an otherwise cool, rational, and computer-like system of information processing, cognitive researchers of the 1990s regardemotions with respect, owing to their potent and predictable effects on tasks as diverse as object perception, episodic recall, and risk assessment. These intersecting lines of interest have made cognition and emotion one of the most active and rapidly developing areas within psychological science.Written in debate format, this book covers developing fields such as social cognition, as well as classic areas such as memory, learning, perception and categorization. The links between emotion and memory, learning, perception, categorization, social judgements, and behavior are addressed.Contributors come from the U.S., Canada, Australia, and France.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Cognition/Emotion Interactions	3	(27)
Eric Eich
Jonathan W. Schooler
The Emotional Unconscious	30	(57)
John F. Kihlstrom
Shelagh Mulvaney
Betsy A. Tobias
Irene P. Tobis
Affect, Memory, and Social Cognition	87	(82)
Gordon H. Bower
Joseph P. Forgas
Emotional Response as Conceptual Coherence	169	(35)
Paula M. Niedenthal
Jamin B. Halberstadt
Q and A	204	(41)
Eric Eich
Author Index	245	(11)
Subject Index	256