Emotions and Beliefs: How Feelings Influence Thoughts

by Edited by Nico H. Frijda , Antony S. R. Manstead , Sacha Bem

• ISBN13: 9780521787345
• ISBN10: 0521787343
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Few people would question nowadays that emotions influence beliefs but until recently little scientific research has been done on exactly how this effect takes place. This important new book, with contributions from some of the leading figures in the study of emotion, explores the relationship between emotions and beliefs from a number of different psychological perspectives. Combining theory with research, it seeks to develop coherent theoretical principles for understanding how emotions influence the content and strength of an individual's beliefs and their resistance or openness to modification.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vi
The influence of emotions on beliefs	1	(9)
Nico H. Frijda
Antony S. R. Manstead
Sacha Bem
Feeling is believing: Some affective influences on belief	10	(35)
Gerald L. Clore
Karen Gasper
Beliefs through emotions	45	(33)
Nico H. Frijda
Batja Mesquita
The sentiments and beliefs of distributed cognition	78	(30)
Keith Oatley
Feeling is believing? The role of processing strategies in mediating affective influences on beliefs	108	(36)
Joseph P. Forgas
The formation of beliefs at the interface of affective and cognitive processes	144	(27)
Klaus Fiedler
Herbert Bless
Anxiety, cognitive biases, and beliefs	171	(14)
Michael W. Eysenck
A cognitive dissonance theory perspective on the role of emotion in the maintenance and change of beliefs and attitudes	185	(27)
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Relationship beliefs and emotion: Reciprocal effects	212	(29)
Margaret S. Clark
Ian Brissette
Index of authors	241	(6)
Index of subjects	247