ABSTRACT
For many years, affective psychology—the psychology of emotion—was widely seen as an entirely separate field from cognitive psychology. Feeling was viewed as something noncognitive. However, in the past decade or so, emotion has become an increasingly important topic in cognitive science. Far from being the opposite of thought, emotion is now viewed as intimately bound up with thought, to such an extent that one cannot fully understand cognition without understanding emotion, and one cannot fully understand emotion without understanding cognition.
