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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... evolutionary perspective.39 I am very fond of his idea that the emotional brain and the " word brain " might be operating in parallel but using different codes and thus are not necessarily able to communicate with each other . And I ...
... evolutionary perspective.39 I am very fond of his idea that the emotional brain and the " word brain " might be operating in parallel but using different codes and thus are not necessarily able to communicate with each other . And I ...
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... ( Evolutionary ) Question For some mental functions , like language , the job facing evolutionary theorists is to try to understand how the function came to be in hu- mans . Our species seems to be the only one living now that is en ...
... ( Evolutionary ) Question For some mental functions , like language , the job facing evolutionary theorists is to try to understand how the function came to be in hu- mans . Our species seems to be the only one living now that is en ...
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... evolutionary psy- chologists , who tend to emphasize evolution's effects on the mind . For a summary of ethological approaches , see J.L. Gould ( 1982 ) . For an ex- ample of the evolutionary psychology approach , see Tooby and Cosme ...
... evolutionary psy- chologists , who tend to emphasize evolution's effects on the mind . For a summary of ethological approaches , see J.L. Gould ( 1982 ) . For an ex- ample of the evolutionary psychology approach , see Tooby and Cosme ...
Contents
Whats Love Got to Do with It? | 11 |
Souls on Ice | 22 |
Blood Sweat and Tears | 42 |
Copyright | |
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