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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Thagard; Fred Kroon; et al |
| ISBN: | 9780262701242 0262701243 9780262201643 026220164X |
| OCLC Number: | 717967324 |
| Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
| Description: | 320 S. : ill. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon ... [et al.]. |
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"As Thagard illustrates in this wonderful book, hot cognition ("hot thought") is a hot topic in the burgeoning field of cognitive science... The vision is broad and deep, and the theories and supporting models tackle the role of emotion in mental mechanisms at levels ranging from the neuromolecular to the unabashedly social." D.S. Dunn Choice Read more...
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- Emotions and cognition.
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