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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... showed that when the brain is split, the two sides can no longer communicate with each other. And because language functions of the brain are usually in the left hemisphere, the person is only able to talk about things that the left ...
... showed that when the brain is split, the two sides can no longer communicate with each other. And because language functions of the brain are usually in the left hemisphere, the person is only able to talk about things that the left ...
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... showed that people are often mistaken about the internal causes of their actions and feelings. Although the subjects always gave reasons, the reasons came not from privileged access to the processes that underlay their decisions, but ...
... showed that people are often mistaken about the internal causes of their actions and feelings. Although the subjects always gave reasons, the reasons came not from privileged access to the processes that underlay their decisions, but ...
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... imagined situations. Other studies by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman led to a similar view, but from a different angle.42 They showed that people use their implicit understanding of the way the world works, Souls on Ice 35.
... imagined situations. Other studies by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman led to a similar view, but from a different angle.42 They showed that people use their implicit understanding of the way the world works, Souls on Ice 35.
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... showed male subjects pictures of partially nude women. The subjects were at the same time listening to a sound that was supposed to be indicative of the rate at which their heart was beating. Valins manipulated the sounds independent of ...
... showed male subjects pictures of partially nude women. The subjects were at the same time listening to a sound that was supposed to be indicative of the rate at which their heart was beating. Valins manipulated the sounds independent of ...
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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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