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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... occurs and emotional memories are formed, and how our conscious emotional feelings emerge from unconscious processes. I tried to write The Emotional Brain so that it would be accessible to readers not trained in science or versed in ...
... occurs and emotional memories are formed, and how our conscious emotional feelings emerge from unconscious processes. I tried to write The Emotional Brain so that it would be accessible to readers not trained in science or versed in ...
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... occur. This clearly happens in humans, but no one knows for sure whether other animals have this capacity. I make no claims about which animals are conscious and which are not. I simply claim that when one of these evolutionarily old ...
... occur. This clearly happens in humans, but no one knows for sure whether other animals have this capacity. I make no claims about which animals are conscious and which are not. I simply claim that when one of these evolutionarily old ...
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... occur as part of the overall reaction to danger and are no more or less central to the reac- tion than the behavioral and physiological responses that also occur, such as trembling, running away, sweating, and heart palpitations. What ...
... occur as part of the overall reaction to danger and are no more or less central to the reac- tion than the behavioral and physiological responses that also occur, such as trembling, running away, sweating, and heart palpitations. What ...
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... occur when the system responsible for awareness becomes privy to the activity occurring in unconscious processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of perceiving red is not the system that represents ...
... occur when the system responsible for awareness becomes privy to the activity occurring in unconscious processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of perceiving red is not the system that represents ...
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... occurs, where it comes from, and why some people give or receive it more easily than others, love, the feeling, may not have much to do with it at all. Our journey into the emotional brain will take us down many different paths. We ...
... occurs, where it comes from, and why some people give or receive it more easily than others, love, the feeling, may not have much to do with it at all. Our journey into the emotional brain will take us down many different paths. We ...
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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