This article addresses the multiple ways in which emotions can influence attitudes and persuasion via primary and secondary (meta-) cognition. Using the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion as a guide, we review evidence for five fundamental processes that occur at different points along the elaboration continuum. When the extent of thinking is constrained to be low, emotions influence at...

In this study, the authors improved the understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the reflective-impulsive cognitive style (RI), which was initially measured by J. Kagan, B. L. Rosman, D. Day, J. Albert, and W. Phillips (1964) on the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT). The authors determined the relationships between the RI style and the cognitive factors, which would be likely to ...

OBJECTIVE The effects of fatigue on multiple-task performance were explored through computational cognitive modeling. BACKGROUND Fatigue typically has a negative impact on human performance. Biomathematical models exist that characterize the dynamics of human alertness, but the link between alertness and in situ performance on specific tasks is tenuous. Cognitive architectures offer a princip...

effect of educational program bases on transtheoretical model constructs on cognitive and beharioral processes for smoking cessation     hekmatpoue d [1] , ouroji ma [2] , shamsi m [3] *     received: 3 jul , 2013 accepted: 14 sep , 2013   abstract   background & aims: smoking as the leading cause of diseases in the world is increasing . smoking cessetation can prevent the death, but the rate o...