ABSTRACT
There are serious attribution problems here, because most people trying to avoid expressing emotion may understand their own reasons for doing so, but nevertheless attribute depraved motives when they observe other people showing no emotion, that is, those doing exactly what they are doing outwardly. A corollary of the hot irrationality view is that to understand it, people must examine variables other than purely cognitive ones. These include emotional distress, neurological problems, biological reactions, genetic predispositions, attitudes, needs and so on. After the cold cognitive revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, researchers began looking at the effects of emotion on thinking, on choice, and hence ultimately on irrationality and have turned away from the general arousal approach to examine the effects of more specific emotions. More psychologists have investigated the possibility that specific types of emotion lead to specific types of attentional processes, where the emphasis is on types.
