ABSTRACT
How are psychological phenomena such as attitudes and cognitive responses related to physiological processes? The question is thousands of years old and has frustrated generations of philosophers and scientists (cf. Uttal, 1975). Indeed, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was moved by the magnitude and complexity of this, question to call it the world knot. This puzzle continues to mystify philosophers and scientists. Recently, scientists, particularly psychologists, have broken this overall question down into smaller subquestions. Some of these subquestions have been deemed inappropriate for scientific study, whereas empirical evidence has been collected that bears on some of the remaining subquestions. In this chapter, we consider the present state of evidence and theory pertaining to physiological processes as they relate to attitudes and cognitive response.
