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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... role is to convert these commonsense notions into myths, changing truisms into "old wives' tales." Frequently, though, we simply have no prior intuitions about something that scientists discover—there is no reason why we should have ...
... role is to convert these commonsense notions into myths, changing truisms into "old wives' tales." Frequently, though, we simply have no prior intuitions about something that scientists discover—there is no reason why we should have ...
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... role, giving emotions their characteristic sense of urgency and intensity. Although James and Cannon disagreed about what distinguishes different emotions, they would seem to have agreed that emotions feel different from other ...
... role, giving emotions their characteristic sense of urgency and intensity. Although James and Cannon disagreed about what distinguishes different emotions, they would seem to have agreed that emotions feel different from other ...
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... role of cognition in emotion. The. Big. Chill. Something was missing in the cognitive theory espoused by Schachter and Singer. They tried to explain how we deal with emotional responses once they occur (when you notice your heart beating ...
... role of cognition in emotion. The. Big. Chill. Something was missing in the cognitive theory espoused by Schachter and Singer. They tried to explain how we deal with emotional responses once they occur (when you notice your heart beating ...
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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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