Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition /

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Main Author: Thagard, Paul
Other Authors: Kroon, Fred
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
©2006
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262284844
0262284847
1282098462
9781282098466
0262701243
9780262701242
1429410027
9781429410021
9786612098468
6612098465
0262303469
9780262303460
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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 : emotion 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 Baljinder Sahdra)
  • 14. The emotional coherence of religion
  • 15. Critique of emotional reason
  • 16. New directions
  • References
  • Index.