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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... unconscious processes. I tried to write The Emotional Brain so that it would be accessible to readers not trained in science or versed in scientific jargon. But I also tried not to water down the science. I hope IVe been successful in ...
... unconscious processes. I tried to write The Emotional Brain so that it would be accessible to readers not trained in science or versed in scientific jargon. But I also tried not to water down the science. I hope IVe been successful in ...
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... unconscious emotional reactions and unconscious emotional memories? Can the emotional slate ever be wiped clean, or are emotional memories permanent? You may have opinions, and even strong ones, about the answers to some of these ...
... unconscious emotional reactions and unconscious emotional memories? Can the emotional slate ever be wiped clean, or are emotional memories permanent? You may have opinions, and even strong ones, about the answers to some of these ...
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... unconsciously). Split-brain surgery seemed to be revealing a fundamental psychological dichotomy—between thinking and ... unconscious is the home of our emotions, which, he said, were often dissociated from normal thought processes ...
... unconsciously). Split-brain surgery seemed to be revealing a fundamental psychological dichotomy—between thinking and ... unconscious is the home of our emotions, which, he said, were often dissociated from normal thought processes ...
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... the most part, generated unconsciously. Freud was right on the mark when he described consciousness as the tip of the mental iceberg. • The fourth theme follows from the third. The conscious What's Love Got to Do with It? 17.
... the most part, generated unconsciously. Freud was right on the mark when he described consciousness as the tip of the mental iceberg. • The fourth theme follows from the third. The conscious What's Love Got to Do with It? 17.
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... unconscious processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of perceiving red is not the system that represents the conscious content (fear or redness) but the systems that provide the inputs to the ...
... unconscious processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of perceiving red is not the system that represents the conscious content (fear or redness) but the systems that provide the inputs to the ...
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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