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

The attitudes, cognitions, emotions, and personal values that comprise mental toughness develop as a result of repeated exposure to a variety of experiences, challenges, and adversities.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 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

Again at the end of the section on knowledge— "Unless there were this unity with Śiva, cognitions could not exist as facts of daily life: "Unity with God is proved by the unity of light.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava