Cognition and Emotion

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

Overview

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 emotion process, 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 cognitive processes 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 regard emotions 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195113334
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/24/2000
Series:	Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

University of British Columbia

University of California, Berkeley

Stanford University, Stanford CA

University of New South Wales

Table of Contents

Contributors1. Cognition/Emotion Interactions, Eric Eich and Jonathan W. Schooler2 The Emotional Unconscious, John F. Kihlstrom et al.3. Affect, Memory, and Social Cognition, Gordon H. Bower and Joseph P. Forgas4. Emotional Response as Conceptual Coherence, Paula M. Niedenthal and Jamin B. Halberstadt5. Q and A, Eric EichAuthor IndexSubject Index

Editorial Reviews

"Cognition and Emotion is a concise and affordable text with chapters written by important figures within the mood and memory literature. ... a comprehensive survey of Bower's (1981) network model and how it has faired in the social cognition literature."—Contemporary Psychology, APA Review of Books

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