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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... mid-century, though, the behaviorist stronghold on psychology began to weaken.11 Electronic computers had been developed, INTROSPECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY SensoryInput Conscious Content BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY Sensory,Input BLACK BOX Souls on Ice 25.
... mid-century, though, the behaviorist stronghold on psychology began to weaken.11 Electronic computers had been developed, INTROSPECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY SensoryInput Conscious Content BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY Sensory,Input BLACK BOX Souls on Ice 25.
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... Sensory,Input BLACK BOX ^BehavioralResponse COGNmVE SCIENCE. i. Storage Conscious Content FIGURE 2-1 Three Approaches to the Science of Mind and Behavior. Introspective psychology is mainly concerned with the contents of immediate ...
... Sensory,Input BLACK BOX ^BehavioralResponse COGNmVE SCIENCE. i. Storage Conscious Content FIGURE 2-1 Three Approaches to the Science of Mind and Behavior. Introspective psychology is mainly concerned with the contents of immediate ...
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... sensory systems, to remembrance of past events, to speaking grammatically, to imagining things that are not present, to decision making, and beyond. Like Freud before them, cognitive scientists reject the view handed down from Descartes ...
... sensory systems, to remembrance of past events, to speaking grammatically, to imagining things that are not present, to decision making, and beyond. Like Freud before them, cognitive scientists reject the view handed down from Descartes ...
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... sensory feedback gives each emotion its unique quality. Fear feels different from anger or love because it has a different physiological signature. The mental aspect of emotion, the feeling, is a slave to its physiology, not vice versa ...
... sensory feedback gives each emotion its unique quality. Fear feels different from anger or love because it has a different physiological signature. The mental aspect of emotion, the feeling, is a slave to its physiology, not vice versa ...
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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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