ABSTRACT
Two types of theories guide most of the research on the study of relationships between emotion and cognition. I shall refer to the first class as cognitive theory because these theories conceive of cognition as the primary mental process and as the cause of emotion. The other type shall be referred to as dynamic theory because theories of this type view emotion as the primary mental process and as the primary cause or motivation for cognition. Although these synoptic descriptions suggest that these positions are in total disagreement on all issues, they are not. I suggest some of the important ways in which they do differ.
