Q&A Question 1: The Rationality of Emotions

To what extent can emotional reactions, responses that are largely non-cognitive, be rational or irrational?

This question is obviously begotten by Radford's acceptance of the fiction paradox thus rendering our emotional reactions to fiction irrational. I take as axiomatic that emotional reactions generally, but especially in response to fiction, are not actions of volition. If this is true, then the lack of will involved would seem to indicate that emotional processes are, at least partially, non-cognitive. For something to be irrational, or for that matter rational, it must be the product, or potentially the product, of reason and thought. If emotions are not processes of volition, then they are not the potential product of reason and thought and therefore cannot be irrational.

Are my premises true? Are emotional processes largely non-cognitive? Does it follow from this that they cannot be irrational?