The Story
Comprehensively examining the relationship between cognition and emotion, this authoritative handbook brings together leading investigators from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Biological underpinnings of the cognitionemotion interface are reviewed, including the role of neurotransmitters and hormones. Contributors explore how key cognitive processessuch as attention, learning, and memoryshape emotional phenomena, and vice versa. Individual differences in areas where cognition and emotion interactsuch as agreeableness and emotional intelligenceare addressed. The volume also analyzes the roles of cognition and emotion in anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, and other psychological disorders.
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Comprehensively examining the relationship between cognition and emotion, this authoritative handbook brings together leading investigators from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Biological underpinnings of the cognitionemotion interface are reviewed, including the role of neurotransmitters and hormones. Contributors explore how key cognitive processessuch as attention, learning, and memoryshape emotional phenomena, and vice versa. Individual differences in areas where cognition and emotion interactsuch as agreeableness and emotional intelligenceare addressed. The volume also analyzes the roles of cognition and emotion in anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, and other psychological disorders.
