FEELING, IMAGING AND THINKING

Feeling and Thinking

Affect is considered by most contemporary theories to be postcognitive, that is, to occur only after considerable cognitive operations have been accomplished. Yet a number of experimental results on preferences, attitudes, impression formation, and de-_ cision making, as well as some clinical phenomena, suggest that affective judgments may be fairly independent of, and precede in time, the sort...

Depersonalization disorder: thinking without feeling.

Patients with depersonalization disorder (DP) experience a detachment from their own senses and surrounding events, as if they were outside observers. A particularly common symptom is emotional detachment from the surroundings. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we compared neural responses to emotionally salient stimuli in DP patients, and in psychiatric and healthy control su...

Values education through thinking, feeling and doing

More and more sense a need for the purpose of education to be more than just knowledge acquisition. Values and morality are an integral part of our lives and should for this reason be carefully integrated into educational contexts. For values to become ‘owned’ by students, however, opportunities must be provided for them to actively and critically construct our so-called shared values. Imaginat...

Emotion in Schizophrenia: Where Feeling Meets Thinking.

Our understanding of the nature of emotional difficulties in schizophrenia has been greatly enhanced by translational research over the past two decades. By incorporating methods and theories from affective science, researchers have been able to discover that people with schizophrenia exhibit very few outward displays of emotion but report experiencing strong feelings in the presence of emotion...

In the Mood for Thought: Feeling and Thinking in Philosophy