The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional LifeWhat happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive. One of the principal researchers profiled in Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, LeDoux is a leading authority in the field of neural science. In this provocative book, he explores the brain mechanisms underlying our emotions -- mechanisms that are only now being revealed. |
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... behaviors are highly conserved through many levels of evolutionary history. All animals, including people, have to ... behavior in humans. Emotional responses are, for the most part, generated unconsciously. Freud was right on the mark ...
... behaviors are highly conserved through many levels of evolutionary history. All animals, including people, have to ... behavior in humans. Emotional responses are, for the most part, generated unconsciously. Freud was right on the mark ...
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... behavior or the belief are salient and plausible causes of these. But when salient and plausible stimuli are not available, people make up reasons and believe in them. In other words, the inner workings of important aspects of the mind ...
... behavior or the belief are salient and plausible causes of these. But when salient and plausible stimuli are not available, people make up reasons and believe in them. In other words, the inner workings of important aspects of the mind ...
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... behavior when in fact he did not. We concluded people normally do all sorts of things for reasons they are not consciously aware of (because the behavior is produced by brain systems that operate unconsciously) and that one of the main ...
... behavior when in fact he did not. We concluded people normally do all sorts of things for reasons they are not consciously aware of (because the behavior is produced by brain systems that operate unconsciously) and that one of the main ...
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The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux. behaviors, and many other aspects of mental functioning.30 ... behavior.34 Jerry Fodor, in The Language of Thought, a groundbreaking book in the philosophy of cognitive science ...
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux. behaviors, and many other aspects of mental functioning.30 ... behavior.34 Jerry Fodor, in The Language of Thought, a groundbreaking book in the philosophy of cognitive science ...
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... behavior, we can study how the brain processes the emotional significance of stimuli unconsciously and uses this information to control behaviors appropriate to the emotional meaning of the stimuli. And just as we hope that studying how ...
... behavior, we can study how the brain processes the emotional significance of stimuli unconsciously and uses this information to control behaviors appropriate to the emotional meaning of the stimuli. And just as we hope that studying how ...
Contents
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THE HOLY GRAIL | 73 |
THE WAY WE WERE | 104 |
A FEW DEGREES OF SEPARATION | 138 |
REMEMBRANCE OF EMOTIONS PAST | 179 |
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE | 225 |
ONCE MORE WITH FEELINGS | 267 |
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux Limited preview - 1998 |
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