Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition

By: Thagard, Paul

Contrary to standard assumptions, reasoning is often an emotional process. Emotions can have good effects, as when a scientist gets excited about a line of research and pursues it successfully despite criticism. But emotions can also distort reasoning, as when a juror ignores evidence of guilt just because the accused seems like a nice guy. In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the mental mechanisms--cognitive, neural, molecular, and social--that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262701243
• ISBN13: 9780262701242
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher