Aesthetics, Affect, and Cognition

Arts and Cognition: Performance, Criticism and Aesthetics

Precompetitive Cognition, and Affect

This study involvedextensive interviews with all 20members of the 1988 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team about their performances in the Seoul Olympics. Qualitative research methodology and analyses were employed to acquire and preserve rich representations of these experiences. Mental preparation strategies, precompetitive cognition, and affect were examined by having the wrestlers respond to a seri...

Affect and Cognition [and Discussion]

Beyond cognition and affect: sensing the unconscious

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Affect and Cognition in Party Identification

Despite the centrality of party identification in understandings of political behavior in the United States, there is an unacknowledged disparity between our theories and measurement of the phenomenon. The traditional method of measuring party identification relies on supplying cognitive cues by explicitly asking respondents to “think” about their partisanship. The Michigan theory of party iden...