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1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Bradford book.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. |
| Contents |
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. Passionate scientist : emotion 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 Baljinder Sahdra) -- 14. Emotional coherence of religion -- 15. Critique of emotional reason -- 16. New directions -- References -- Index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
"In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the mental mechanisms - cognitive, neural, molecular, and social - that interact to produce different kinds of human thinking, from everyday decision making to legal reasoning, scientific discovery, and religious belief, and he discusses when and how thinking and reasoning should be emotional." "Thagard argues that an understanding of emotional thinking needs to integrate the cognitive, neural, molecular, and social levels. Many of the chapters employ computational models of various levels of thinking, including HOTCO (hot cognition) models and the more neurologically realistic GAGE model. Thagard uses these models to illuminate thinking in the domains of law, science, and religion, discussing such topics as the role of doubt and reasonable doubt in legal and other contexts, valuable emotional habits for successful scientists, and the emotional content of religious beliefs. Identifying and assessing the impact of emotion, Thagard argues, can suggest ways to improve the process of reasoning."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emotions and cognition.
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Emotions and cognition. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kroon, Fred.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thagard, Paul. Hot thought. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 026220164X (DLC) 2006041979 (OCoLC)64065975 |
| ISBN |
9780262284844 (electronic book) |
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0262284847 (electronic book) |
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1282098462 |
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9781282098466 |
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026220164X (alkaline paper) |
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9780262201643 |
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