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Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon [and others].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 026220164X
  • 9780262201643
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BF311 .T416 2006
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- [pt]. 1. Mechanisms -- 1. Mental mechanisms -- 2. How to make decisions -- 3. Emotional analogies and analogical inference / (with Cameron Shelley) -- 4. Emotional gestalts : appraisal, change, and the dynamics of affect / (with Josef Nerb) -- 5. Emotional consensus in group decision making / (with Fred Kroon) -- 6. Spiking Phineas Gage : a neurocomputational theory of cognitive-affective integration in decision making / (with Brandon Wagar) -- 7. How molecules matter to mental computation -- [pt.] 2. Applications -- 8. Why wasn't O.J. convicted? Emotional coherence in legal inference -- 9. What is doubt and when is it reasonable? -- 10. The passionate scientist : emotional in scientific cognition -- 11. Curing cancer? Patrick Lee's path to the reovirus treatment -- 12. How to be a successful scientist -- 13. Self-deception and emotional coherence / (with Beljinder Sahdra) -- 14. The emotional coherence of religion -- 15. Critique of emotional reason -- 16. New directions -- References -- Index.
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"A Bradford book.".

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

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

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