Emotion and reasoning / edited by Isabelle Blanchette.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Does emotion affect reasoning? Yes, in multiple ways / Isabelle Blanchette -- Better safe than sorry: threat-confirming reasoning bias in anxiety disorders / Peter de Jong and Maartje Vroling -- Emotion, reasoning, and psychopathology / Amelia Gangemi, Francesco Mancini and P.N. Johnson-Laird -- Emotions, beliefs, and psychopathology / Howard Berenbaum and Matthew Tyler Boden -- Conflict, arousal, and logical gut feelings / Wim de Neys -- Emotion as an argumentative strategy: how induced mood affects the evaluation -- Of neutral and inflammatory slippery slope arguments / Shireen Quraishi and Mike Oaksford -- Reasoning and emotion in the body / Isabelle Blanchette and Jean-Nol Amato -- Pupil size reflects cognition emotion interactions in analogical reasoning / Kristin Prehn and Elke van der Meer -- What is the role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in emotional influences on -- Reason? / Antoinette Nicolle and Vinod Goel.

"The interaction between emotion and cognition is a fundamental issue which has only recently been reintroduced as a legitimate object of study in experimental psychology. This book examines the important impact that affective processes have on reasoning, and demonstrates how emotional reasoning cannot simply be equated with faulty reasoning."--Back cover.