Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Mechanisms -- 1 Mental Mechanisms -- 2 How to Make Decisions -- 3 Emotional Analogies and Analogical Inference -- 4 Emotional Gestalts: Appraisal, Change, and the Dynamics of Affect -- 5 Emotional Consensus in Group Decision Making -- 6 Spiking Phineas Gage: A Neurocomputational Theory of Cognitive-Affective Integration in Decision Making -- 7 How Molecules Matter to Mental Computation -- II Applications -- 8 Why Wasn't O. J. Convicted? Emotional Coherence in Legal Inference -- 9 What Is Doubt and When Is It Reasonable? -- 10 The Passionate Scientist: Emotion in Scientific Cognition -- 11 Curing Cancer? Patrick Lee's Path to the Reovirus Treatment -- 12 How to Be a Successful Scientist -- 13 Self-Deception and Emotional Coherence -- 14 The Emotional Coherence of Religion -- 15 Critique of Emotional Reason -- 16 New Directions -- References -- Index.