Hot Thought - Table of Contents

September 2006
6 x 9, 313 pp., 34 illus.
$37.00/£27.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-20164-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-20164-3

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Hot Thought
Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition
Paul Thagard

	Preface	ix

	Acknowledgments	xi

I.	Mechanisms	1

I.	Mental Mechanisms Sample Chapter - Download PDF (59 KB)	3

2.	How to Make Decisions	11

3.	Emotional Analogies and Analogical Inference Cameron Shelley	27

4.	Emotional Gestalts: Appraisal, Change, and the Dynamics of Affect Josef Nerb	51

5.	Emotional Consensus in Group Decision Making Fred Kroon	65

6.	Spiking Phineas Gage: A Neurocomputational Theory of Cognitive-Affective Integration in Decision Making Brandon Wagar	87

7.	How Molecules Matter to Mental Computation	115

II.	Applications	133

8.	Why Wasn't O.J. Convicted? Emotional Coherence in Legal Inference	135

9.	What Is Doubt and When Is It Reasonable?	157

10.	The Passionate Scientist: Emotion in Scientific Cognition	171

11.	Curing Cancer? Patrick Lee's Path to the Reovirus Treatment	189

12.	How to Be a Successful Scientist	207

13.	Self-Deception and Emotional Coherence Baljinder Sahdra	219

14.	The Emotional Coherence of Religion	237

15.	Critique of Emotional Reason	251

16.	New Directions	263

	References	275

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (43 KB)	295

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