Emotion and reasoning /
edited by Isabelle Blanchette.
- x, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Current issues in thinking and reasoning .
- Current issues in thinking & reasoning. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Does emotion affect reasoning? Yes, in multiple ways / Better safe than sorry: threat-confirming reasoning bias in anxiety disorders / Emotion, reasoning, and psychopathology / Emotions, beliefs, and psychopathology / Conflict, arousal, and logical gut feelings / Emotion as an argumentative strategy: how induced mood affects the evaluation -- Of neutral and inflammatory slippery slope arguments / Reasoning and emotion in the body / Pupil size reflects cognition emotion interactions in analogical reasoning / What is the role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in emotional influences on -- Reason? / Isabelle Blanchette -- Peter de Jong and Maartje Vroling -- Amelia Gangemi, Francesco Mancini and P.N. Johnson-Laird -- Howard Berenbaum and Matthew Tyler Boden -- Wim de Neys -- Shireen Quraishi and Mike Oaksford -- Isabelle Blanchette and Jean-Nol Amato -- Kristin Prehn and Elke van der Meer -- 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.