cognitions

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“There are intrusions of traumatic memory, there’s avoidance of salient reminders, there are negative alterations in cognitions and in mood, and there are alterations in arousal and reactivity,” Kaufman said.

From The Verge • Apr. 27, 2022

According to hope theory, emotions follow cognitions, not the other way around.

From Time • Jun. 17, 2015

By following a mindful and accepting approach to my unusual cognitions, I have learned to live in harmony with my hallucinations and delusions.

From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 2014

Such lightning-fast cognitions are possible partly because the brain makes certain automatic assumptions: it figures that light has traveled in a straight line from the object to our eyes.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2012

At the lower end we have the physiological extension, mind-cures, 'stigmatization' of ecstatics, etc.; in the upper, the hyper-normal cognitions of the medium-trance.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William