Special Issue "Functional Perspectives on Emotion, Behavior, and Cognition"

Guest Editor
Dr. Heather C. Lench
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USA
Website: http://www.heatherlench.com
E-Mail: hlench@psych.tamu.edu
Phone: +1 979 8450377
Interests: emotion; affect; optimism; affective forecasting; cognition

Dear Colleagues,

Emotion, behavior and cognition are interdependent, each exerting a powerful influence on the others. Functional perspectives, based on the idea that certain mental states evolved to meet environmental demands, have the potential to unify our understanding of emotion, behavior, and cognition as serving goals within particular environments. This special issue will explore the connections among emotion, behavior, and cognition from a functional perspective. Examples of topics appropriate for this special issue would include theoretical or empirical papers that address functional theories from a historical perspective, the impact of emotional states on functional behavior or cognition, or the influence of evolved or adaptive cognitive states on behavior or emotion. Papers that examine the interplay among emotion, behavior and cognition in a particular subject area, such as attitudes, relationships, memory, or psychiatric disorders, would also be an excellent fit. This special issue aims to examine the interplay among emotion, behavior, and cognition and will include papers that address two or more of these aspects.

Dr. Heather C. Lench
Guest Editor

Submission

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• emotion
• affect
• cognition
• behavior
• functional theory
• evolutionary theory