Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon ... [et al.].
Thagard, Paul.; Kroon, Fred.
2006
BF311 .T416 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon ... [et al.].
Author Thagard, Paul.
ISBN 9780262201643 (alk. paper)
026220164X (alk. paper)
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
Language English
Description xii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number BF311 .T416 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 152.4
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
Added Author Kroon, Fred.
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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 : emotional 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 Beljinder Sahdra)
14. The emotional coherence of religion
15. Critique of emotional reason
16. New directions
References
Index.

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