The interaction between emotion and cognition is a fundamental issue which has only recently been reintroduced as a legitimate object of study in experimental psychology. This book examines the important impact that affective processes have on reasoning, and demonstrates how emotional reasoning cannot simply be equated with faulty reasoning.

The book presents contributions from leading researchers, from a variety of disciplines, including experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuropsychology and experimental psychopathology. The opening chapters consider...