History & The Arts
‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
...et. al. (2012), which show that emotions generated by appraisal mechanisms that aren’t cognitively penetrated are more resistant to cognitive influence than those that are. Emotional recalcitrance and cognitive psychology Much of this is spadework. But by tying in the notion of emotional recalcitrance with that of cognitive impenetrability, what we gain is the ability...