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. 2014 Mar;18(3):134-40.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.12.004. Epub 2014 Jan 2.

Cognitive approaches to emotions

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Cognitive approaches to emotions

Keith Oatley et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Mar.

Abstract

Cognitive approaches offer clear links between how emotions are thought about in everyday life and how they are investigated psychologically. Cognitive researchers have focused on how emotions are caused when events or other people affect concerns and on how emotions influence processes such as reasoning, memory, and attention. Three representative cognitive theories of emotion continue to develop productively: the action-readiness theory, the core-affect theory, and the communicative theory. Some principles are common to them and divergences can be resolved by future research. Recent explanations have included how emotions structure social relationships, how they function in psychological illnesses, and how they are central to music and fiction.

Keywords: action readiness; affect; appraisal; communication; emotion; psychological illnesses.

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