Emotion and Cognition
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman explains that, while "...cognition is always there during emotion," there's generally no consciousness of cognition in the process of emotional experience. Dr. Ekman adds that there are, however, exceptions, such a...
Emotions: Relationship Between Thinking and Emotion, The
Most emotion researchers agree that cognitions can elicit emotion and emotions can shape cognition. The argument is over whether or not cognition is required for emotion. Brief emotions, researchers believe, have a specific functional form of cognit...
Acquisition of Biases, The
Social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji explains that prejudice is something that is learned, not something with which we're born. The good news, according to Dr. Banaji, is that we can change our thinking. "It's part of ordinary thinking, ordinary cogn...
Deception
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about work he's done that can be used to help determine if someone is being deceptive. Dr. Ekman adds that part of his work in this area has to do with understanding why people lie, why some lies fail and oth...