?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Emotional+Decisions&rft.creator=Barnes%2C+Allison&rft.creator=Thagard%2C+Paul&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.description=Recent+research+has+yielded+an+explosion+of+literature+that+establishes+a+strong+connection+between+emotional+and+cognitive+processes.+Most+notably%2C+Antonio+Damasio+draws+an+intimate+connection+between+emotion+and+cognition+in+practical+decision+making.+Damasio+presents+a+%22somatic+marker%22+hypothesis+which+explains+how+emotions+are+biologically+indispensable+to+decisions.+His+research+on+patients+with+frontal+lobe+damage+indicates+that+feelings+normally+accompany+response+options+and+operate+as+a+biasing+device+to+dictate+choice.+What+Damasio's+hypothesis+lacks+is+a+theoretical+model+of+decision+making+which+can+advance+the+conceptual+connection+between+emotional+and+cognitive+decision+making+processes.+In+this+paper+we+combine+Damasio's+somatic+marker+hypothesis+with+the+coherence+theory+of+decision+put+forward+by+Thagard+and+Millgram.+The+juxtaposition+of+Damasio's+hypothesis+with+a+cognitive+theory+of+decision+making+leads+to+a+new+and+better+theory+of+emotional+decisions.&rft.publisher=Erlbaum&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F619%2F1%2FEmot_Decis.html&rft.identifier=++Barnes%2C+Allison+and+Thagard%2C+Paul++(1996)+Emotional+Decisions.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F619%2F