On the irrationality of emotion and the rationality of awareness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 946-971

  Lambie, John A ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Awareness; Deliberative rationality; Emotion; Inhibition; Rationality; Reflective revision; Signal detection theory; Somatic markers

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; AWARENESS BASED RATIONALITY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONSEQUENTIALIST APPROACH; DECISION MAKING; DEONTOLOGICAL APPROACH; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; EMOTION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RATIONAL BEHAVIOR; REFLECTIVE REVISION; SIGNAL DETECTION; THEORY VALIDATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; AWARENESS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 47149117079     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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