1. Introduction: the role of affect in social cognition Joseph P. Forgas; Part I. Fundamental Issues: The Interplay of Affect and Cognition: 2. Nonconscious and noncognitive affect Robert Zajonc; 3. Challenge and threat: the interplay of affect and cognition Jim Blascovich and Wendy Berry Mendes; 4. Affect and appraisal Craig A. Smith and Leslie D. Kirby; Part II. The Informational Role of Affect: 5. Cognitive and clinical perspectives on mood dependent memory Eric Eich and Dawn Macauley; 6. Some conditions affecting overcorrection of the judgment-distorting influence of one's feelings Leonard Berkowitz, Sara Jaffee, Eunkyung Jo and Bartholomeu T. Troccoli; 7. Mood as input: a configural view of mood effects Leonard L. Martin; 8. Affective forecasting and durability bias: the problem of the invisible shield Dan Gilbert; Part III. Affect and Information Processing: 9. Mood and general knowledge structures: happy moods and their impact on information processing Herbert Bless; 10. A connectionist approach to understanding the impact of mood on cognitive functions of assimilation and accommodation; 11. The role of different processing strategies in mediating mood effects on cognition Joseph P. Forgas; Part IV. Affect and Social Knowledge Structures: 12. Self-organization in emotional contexts Carolin Showers; 13. Prologues to a unified theory of affect, attitudes, stereotypes, and self-concept Anthony Greenwald; 14. Interpersonal emotions, social cognition, and self-relevant thought Mark Leary; 15. Emotional response categorization Paula Niedenthal; 16. Integration and conclusions Joseph P. Forgas.