1. Methods of Defining Psychology
... out research in the area of cognition and emotion. The most common approach adopted by cognitive psychologists wishing to study the effects of emotion on cognition has involved manipulating participants' emotional states in a systematic way. In contrast, some researchers (e.g., Lazarus, 1991; Smith & Lazarus, 1993) have studied the effects of cognition on emotion. As there are almost constant interactions ... , and by automatic or controlled processing, appraisal theories claim that appraisals start the emotion process, initiating the physiological, expressive, and behavioural and other ...
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