Basic Conceptual Orientations. Affect and social judgments: an introductory review (J.P. Forgas). Mood congruity of social judgments (G.H. Bower). Happy and mindless, but sad and smart? The impact of affective states on analytic reasoning (N. Schwarz, H. Bless). The joint effects of cognition and affect on social judgment (M.F. Kaplan). On the task, the measures and the mood in research on affect and social cognition (K. Fiedler). Integrations and Extensions. Moods and their vicissitudes: thoughts and feelings as information (G.L. Clore, G. Parrott). The perception and processing of affective information and its influences on social judgment (P.M. Niedenthal, C. Showers). Motivation and complexity levels as determinants of heuristic use in social judgment (N.R. Branscombe, B.M. Cohen). A critique of cognitive approaches to social judgments and social behavior (M. Argyle). Theories and Applications. Multiple roles for affect in persuasion (R.E. Petty et al.). Feeling good, but not thinking straight: the impact of positive mood on persuasion (D.M. Mackie, L.T. Worth). Positive mood, processing goals, and the effects of information on evaluative judgment (J.M. Innes, C.R. Ahrens). Influence of mood on judgments about health and illness (P. Salovey et al.). Affect and person perception (J.P. Forgas). Name index. Subject index.