PSYC 6310 Cognition and Emotion

An examination of the cognitive and affective processes involved in human mentation. Includes the study of attention, perceptual processes, memory, knowledge representation, language, decision making, problem solving, mood, emotions, emotion regulation, affective neuroscience, emotional expression, and cultural aspects of emotion. Students will read classic and cutting-edge articles in the two fields and write a literature review paper integrating both cognitive and affective theoretical perspectives applied to a topic of their choice.