ABSTRACT
The role of affect in social behavior is of intense interest in contemporary social psychology. This interdisciplinary field offers many examples of the complex bridges that have been created exist between social psychology, and areas such as cognitive, learning, and neuropsychology and the history and philosophy of psychology. These bridges greatly enriched our enterprise by providing us with new ideas, metaphors, and techniques. In turn, experimental affect research influenced these and other applied areas where understanding affectivity is important, such as clinical, counseling, and organizational psychology (Ciarrochi, Forgas, & Mayer, 2001; Forgas & George, 2001). This chapter discusses some of the ways that recent research on affect and social behavior benefited from and created bridges to related fields such as the history of psychology, and cognitive, learning, and neuropsychology.
