Cognition and emotion

"Clearly written by international experts, this excellent book provides authoritative overviews of the most interesting and challenging debates in cognition and emotion. Both established researchers and students new to the field will warmly welcome such clear statements of what questions have already been asked, what controversies remain, and what the future of the field may hold." Mark Williams, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow & Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford, UK. "This is an important book. It offers a collection of cutting-edge reviews of research on a number of basic processes in emotions, such as preattentive processes and valence assessment. It demonstrates that the experimental study of emotion processes has entered a new stage in probing basic pshychological mechanisms." Nico H. Frijda, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "The overall quality of these reviews is exceptionally high-each has been refined using rigorous peer review and editorial expertise. The resulting chapters are balanced and comprehensive, yet present distinctive points of view. This stimulating book represents the state of the art in under