ABSTRACT
Psychology is replete with false dichotomies: consider, for example, the “biological” versus the “social” (but society is a biological invention), or “animal” versus “human” (but man is an animal). Two such dichotomies that are relevant to the theme of this chapter are: cognition versus emotion; and behaviorism versus its resuscitated and newly fashionable rival, cognitive science. No more than in my other examples are the terms of these dichotomies true polar opposites: thought rarely occurs without emotion, or emotion without thought; and behavioral and cognitive science, if either is to succeed, will need to be as intricately related as the controlled process (behavior) and controlling processes (cognition) that each seeks to specify.
