Feeling and thinking
Subtitle: the role of affect in social cognition
By: edited by Joseph P. Forgas.
Contributors: Forgas, Joseph P.
Series: Studies in emotion and social interaction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de lH́omme; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de lHomme
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York; Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Affect (Psychology); Mood (Psychology); Emotions; Social perception
Description: Affective states have a highly important, yet little understood influence on how people think about, remember, and respond to social situations. Contributions from leading psychologists in the field review and integrate the most recent work on the role of affect in social life. They offer new insights on the fundamental links between affect and cognition, and report recent research and theories illustrating how affective states can play a subtle and often subconscious role in guiding peoples' thoughts, memories, judgments, attitudes and behaviors in social situations. The insights offered in this book have major implications for several applied fields where the links between feeling, thinking and behavior are of interest, such as clinical, counseling, health and organizational psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.