FEELING AND THINKING
The Role of Affect in Social Cognition
Joseph Forgas, Editor
Cambridge University Press, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: This book, based on the annual Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology contains 16 articles by leading researchers, such as Zajonc, Blascovich, Mendes, and Forgas, on the relationship between emotions, thought and behavior. This has application for the skills of clinicians and researchers who work with emotion. It covers a wide range of views and controversies.
The Role of Affect in Social Cognition (Readings included in Articles 1-8): The reader will learn how affect is different from other mental states; the role of affect in thinking and behavior, alone and in social situations; the relationship between affect and memory, affect and social behaviors.
Affect, Information-Processing and Social Structures (Readings included in Articles 9-16): The reader should know the mediating effect of general knowledge structures on the interplay between feeling and thinking, how affect and different information-processing structures interact, Greenwald's theory of attitudes, stereotypes and self-concept, and affect cognition and social emotions, such as shame, jealousy, social anxiety, sadness and loneliness.
Joseph P. Forgas is professor of social psychology and social cognition at the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the field and the recipient of the Australian Research Council's Special Investigator Award and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize.
16 CE Credits; 420 pages
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