Editing Feeling (section)

==Scientific theories and models==
A number of experiments have been conducted in the study of social and psychological affective preferences (i.e., what people like or dislike). Specific research has been done on [[preferences]], [[Attitude (psychology)|attitudes]], [[impression formation]], and [[decision-making]]. This research contrasts findings with [[recognition memory]] (old-new judgments), allowing researchers to demonstrate reliable distinctions between the two. Affect-based judgments and [[cognitive]] processes have been examined with noted differences indicated. Some argue affect and cognition are under the control of separate and partially independent systems that can influence each other in a variety of ways.{{sfnp|Zajonc|1980}} Both affect and cognition may constitute independent sources of effects within systems of information processing. Others suggest emotion is a result of an anticipated, experienced, or imagined outcome of an adaptational transaction between organism and environment, therefore cognitive appraisal processes are keys to the development and expression of an emotion.{{sfnp|Lazarus|1982}}

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