Surveys and integrates recent work by psychologists on how emotions come to influence thinking and judgements. The book particularly considers the role of emotions in interpersonal judgements about health and illness and in social decisions.

List of Contributors -- PART 1. BASIC CONCEPTUAL ORIENTATIONS -- 1. Affect and Social Judgments: An Introductory Review /Joseph P. Forgas -- 2. Mood Congruity of Social Judgments /Gordon H. Bower -- 3. Happy and Mindless, But Sad and Smart? The Impact of Affective States on Analytic Reasoning /Norbert Schwarz and Herbert Bless -- 4. The Joint Effects of Cognition and Affect on Social Judgment /Martin F. Kaplan -- 5. On the Task, the Measures and the Mood in Research on Affect and Social Cognition /Klaus Fiedler -- PART 2. INTEGRATIONS AND EXTENSIONS -- 6. Moods and Their Vicissitudes: Thoughts and Feelings as Information /Gerald L. Clore and Gerrod Parrott -- 7. The Perception and Processing of Affective Information and its Influences on Social Judgment /Paula M. Niedenthal and Carolin Showers -- 8. Motivation and Complexity Levels as Determinants of Heuristic Use in Social Judgment /Nyla R. Branscombe and Brian M. Cohen -- 9. A Critique of Cognitive Approaches to Social Judgments and Social Behavior /Michael Argyle -- PART 3. THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS -- 10. Multiple Roles for Affect in Persuasion /Richard E. Petty, Faith Gleicher, and Sara M. Baker -- 11. Feeling Good, But Not Thinking Straight: The Impact of Positive Mood on Persuasion /Diane M. Mackie and Leila T. Worth -- 12. Positive Mood, Processing Goals and the Effects of Information on Evaluative Judgment /J. M. Innes and C. R. Ahrens -- 13. Influence of Mood on Judgments About Health and Illness /Peter Salovey, Ann O'Leary, Martha S. Stretton, Stephanie A. Fishkin and Chloe A. Drake -- 14. Affect and Person Perception /Joseph P. Forgas -- Name Index Subject Index.