Cognition and Emotion

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.