
The Cognition-Motivation Connection
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The Evolution of Cognitive Psychology
In general, how is cognition influenced by emotion? I've been interested in this connection for a while. And watching the evolution from within my field of cognitive psychology and kind of moving away from the approach that I came up with when I was just starting out as a graduate student. We are moving into this more nuanced view of how those two things work together so that our emotions affect what we believe. They also serve as a way to almost elevate or suppress different aspects of what we're processing.
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