The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by Joseph LeDoux
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What 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Good, although really it should be called "the fearful brain". Someone really needs to do some research on one of the other emotions!
Good, although really it should be called "the fearful brain". Someone really needs to do some research on one of the other emotions!
i think i've given up on this one. too many book (and other) priorities..
I had a really good time reading this at the beach.
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Das Buch ist informativ, wartet mit neuen Fakten auf, ist systematisch aufgebaut und ermöglicht dem Leser dadurch einen guten Einblick in die Materie. Und es wagt Zukunftsprognosen: Wir können für uns und unsere Entwicklung noch hoffen, daß "der Kampf zwischen Denken und Emotion [...] letztlich entschieden" wird im Sinne einer "harmonischeren Integration von Vernunft und Leidenschaft".
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Author Information
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Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at the Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology, New York University.
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Il cervello emotivo: alle origini delle emozioni
- Original title
- The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Blurbers
- Goleman, Daniel
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