Emotion and Cognition
The issues discussed in this chapter involve cognitive errors, that is, errors that stem from the way that people think. But in describing ambiguity to aversion in terms of fear of the unknown, I suggest that some phenomena involve a combination of cognition and emotion. Of course, both involve mental processes, and may be physiologically linked, as opposed to being separate from each other. Scholars have produced amble evidence that emotion plays an important role in the way people remember events. So, phenomena involving the availability heuristic may reflect both cognitive and emotional elements. Here is an example.