Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition /

Thagard, Paul,

Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon [and others]. - xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"A Bradford book.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Mechanisms -- Mental mechanisms -- How to make decisions -- Emotional analogies and analogical inference / Emotional gestalts : appraisal, change, and the dynamics of affect / Emotional consensus in group decision making / Spiking Phineas Gage : a neurocomputational theory of cognitive-affective integration in decision making / How molecules matter to mental computation -- Applications -- Why wasn't O.J. convicted? Emotional coherence in legal inference -- What is doubt and when is it reasonable? -- passionate scientist : emotional in scientific cognition -- Curing cancer? Patrick Lee's path to the reovirus treatment -- How to be a successful scientist -- Self-deception and emotional coherence / emotional coherence of religion -- Critique of emotional reason -- New directions -- References -- Index. Cameron Shelley) -- Josef Nerb) -- Fred Kroon) -- Brandon Wagar) -- Beljinder Sahdra) -- [pt]. 1. 1. 2. 3. (with 4. (with 5. (with 6. (with 7. [pt.] 2. 8. 9. 10. The 11. 12. 13. (with 14. The 15. 16.

026220164X 9780262201643

2006041979


Emotions and cognition

BF311 / .T416 2006

152.4

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