15 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 A. Tiba, Embodied Hot Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53989-4_2 Chapter 2 Embodying Hot Cognition 2.1 What Is Hot Cognition? In 1958, Abelson and Rosenberg proposed the term hot cognition to refer to cogni- tion infuenced by emotion (Abelson and Rosenberg 1958). Although there are many conceptualizations of this distinction (e.g., Roiser and Sahakian 2013), the most infuential understanding of hot cognition conceptualizes hot cognition as cog- nition related to emotions (David and David 2017). According to this distinction, hot cognition refers to cognitive processes that result in emotion (e.g., appraising something as being bad for me). Cold cognition refers to knowing, cognitive pro- cesses, or knowledge that do not result directly in emotion (e.g., I lost money) (Ellis et al. 2010; David et al. 2010; David and David 2017; David and Matu 2017; David and Szentagotai 2006). There are many types of cognition that result in emotion (from perception to learning and understanding). In this book, I focus on cognition relevant to psychotherapy. Much effort in psychotherapy is directed at verbally changing how individuals think or interpret external and internal negative situations relevant to their personal goals. Thus, I will discuss emotional knowledge in terms of thinking of emotional situations and personal signifcance of encounters. In this chapter, I begin by defning hot cognition. Second, I contrast the embodied simula- tion theory with theories that are based on a propositional nature of emotional knowledge. Third, I move on to a detailed description of research on embodied simulation in emotional thinking, emotional language comprehension, and the interaction between language and embodied simulation. Finally, I discuss the impli- cations of embodied simulation for hot thinking.