cold cognition

a mental process or activity that does not involve feelings or emotions. For instance, reading a list of nonsense syllables or factoids (brief pieces of invented or inaccurate information) typically involves cold cognition. Compare hot cognition. [introduced in 1963 by U.S. social psychologist Robert P. Abelson (1928–2005)]

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