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Author Thagard, Paul.

Title Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon ... [et al.].

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  152.4 T326h 2006    ---  Available
Description xii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
Contents I: Mechanisms -- Mental mechanisms -- How to make decisions -- Emotional analogies and analogical inference (with Cameron Shelley) -- Emotional gestalts: appraisal, change, and the dynamics of affect (with Josef Nerb) -- Emotional consensus in group decision making (with Fred Kroon) -- Spiking Phineas Gage: a neurocomputational theory of cognitive-affective integration in decision making (with Brandon Wagar) -- How molecules matter to mental computation -- II: Applications -- Why wasn't O.J. convicted? Emotional coherence in legal inference -- What is doubt and when is it reasonable? -- The passionate scientist: emotional in scientific cognition -- Curing cancer? Patrick Lee's path to the reovirus treatment -- How to be a successful scientist -- Self-deception and emotional coherence (with Beljinder Sahdra) -- The emotional coherence of religion -- Critique of emotional reason -- New directions.
Subject Emotions and cognition.
Added Author Kroon, Fred.
ISBN 026220164X (alk. paper)
9780262201643
Standard No. YDXCP 2424961
IG# 026220164X
NLGGC 292124961
NZ1 10689885

 
    
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