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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... Finally, once emotions occur they become powerful motivators of future behaviors. They chart the course of moment-tomoment action as well as set the sails toward long-term achievements. What's Love Got to Do with It? 19.
... Finally, once emotions occur they become powerful motivators of future behaviors. They chart the course of moment-tomoment action as well as set the sails toward long-term achievements. What's Love Got to Do with It? 19.
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... long-term achievements. But our emotions can also get us into trouble. When fear becomes anxiety, desire gives way to greed, or annoyance turns to anger, anger to hatred, friendship to envy, love to obsession, or pleasure to addiction ...
... long-term achievements. But our emotions can also get us into trouble. When fear becomes anxiety, desire gives way to greed, or annoyance turns to anger, anger to hatred, friendship to envy, love to obsession, or pleasure to addiction ...
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... long ago pointed out, con- scious content comes from processing, and we are ... term "cognitive unconscious" to describe the subterranean processes that ... term cognitive unconscious merely implies that a lot of what the mind does goes ...
... long ago pointed out, con- scious content comes from processing, and we are ... term "cognitive unconscious" to describe the subterranean processes that ... term cognitive unconscious merely implies that a lot of what the mind does goes ...
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... long-term memory banks. Once there, the stimulus information is matched up with stored information about similar objects and is classified as an apple, allowing you to "know" that you are looking at an apple and perhaps even leading you ...
... long-term memory banks. Once there, the stimulus information is matched up with stored information about similar objects and is classified as an apple, allowing you to "know" that you are looking at an apple and perhaps even leading you ...
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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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