Cognition & Emotion Books

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21. The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Emotion and Emotional Disorders

    A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

    Edited by André Aleman, Nick Medford, Anthony S. David

    Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

    Recent years have shown an increased interest in the cognitive and neural basis of emotion in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Indeed, various methods of behavioural and neural measurement of emotional processes are continually being developed and refined, which has led to an explosion of...

    Published May 31st 2006 by Psychology Press
22. Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Psychopathology

    A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by D Hermans, Filip Raes, Pierre Philipott, Ismay Kremers

    Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

    It has been repeatedly demonstrated that depression and reported history of trauma are associated with a difficulty in retrieving specific autobiographical memories, a phenomenon called overgeneral memory (Williams & Broadbent, 1986). Over the past twenty years there has been a stimulating...

    Published May 17th 2006 by Psychology Press
23. Associative Learning of Likes and Dislikes

    A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by Jan de Houwer, Frank Baeyens, Andy Field

    Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

    Preferences are assumed to play a crucial role in many phenomena that are studied in learning psychology, social psychology, consumer science, emotion research, and clinical psychology. Given the pervasive impact that preferences have on behaviour, it is important to know where these likes and...

    Published February 23rd 2005 by Psychology Press
24. Emotional Memory Failures

    A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by Ineke Wessel, Daniel B. Wright

    Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

    The beginning of the 1990's saw a partisan debate about the nature of recovered memories for highly emotional events. Some authors claimed that recovered memories of trauma always referred to veridical memories that had been inaccessible for years. Others argued that such memories were false by...

    Published June 16th 2004 by Psychology Press
25. Motivation and Emotion

    By Philip Gorman

    Series: Routledge Modular Psychology

    Motivation and Emotion provides an explanation of emotional experience and aspects of human behaviour using psychological, physiological and alternative approaches. The brain mechanisms that govern motivations are discussed and questions such as 'Why don't we eat ourselves to death?' and 'How do we...

    Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge
26. Cognitive Biases in Anxiety and Depression

    A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by Paula Hertel

    Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

    This special issue of Cognition and Emotion is dedicated to the phenomena of emotion-related biases in attention and remembering that are experienced by anxious and depressed people. Andrew Mathews and Colin MacLeod summarize their new research in using experimental methods to train anxiety-like...

    Published April 24th 2002 by Psychology Press
27. Culture and Emotion

    A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by Agneta Fischer, Anthony Manstead

    Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

    For the past three decades theorizing and research on the relationship between culture and emotion has tended to concentrate on the seemingly straightforward issue of whether or not emotions are universal. This was reflected in a dispute in which it seemed only possible to choose between the two...

    Published January 9th 2002 by Psychology Press
28. Automatic Affective Processing

    A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by Jan De Houwer, Dirk Hermans

    Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

    The concepts 'affect', 'valence' and 'attitude' are all fundamentally linked to the basic psychological dimension of good vs bad, positive vs negative, approach vs avoid. Affective processing refers to the act of determining the location of a stimulus on the affective dimension. Over the past few...

    Published February 7th 2001 by Psychology Press
29. Human Performance

    Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences

    By D. Roy Davies, Gerald Matthews, Rob B. Stammers, Steve J. Westerman

    Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory.Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by...

    Published August 23rd 2000 by Psychology Press
30. Functional Accounts of Emotion

    A Special Issue of the Journal Cognitiona and Emotion

    By James J. Gross, Dacher Keltner

    Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

    In recent years, emotion researchers have paid increasing attention to the functions that emotions service. This attention to function has been apparent in many disciplines and at many levels of analysis. From the most basic physiological symptom to the most overarching social structure, the...

    Published August 25th 1999 by Psychology Press