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The Emotional Brain

The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

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The Emotional Brain

By: Joseph Ledoux
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
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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 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.

©1996 Joseph LeDoux (P)2022 Tantor Psychology & Mental Health Human Brain Emotions Psychology Biological Sciences Science Mental Health Consciousness Health
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I enjoy the process of thinking about feeling. I enjoyed most. I think the idea that not all of our feelings may be processed by the same system. I enjoyed the idea of challenging some of the ways we talk about and typically think about our feelings. I would love to hear more about the differences in how we suspect humans experience emotions versus the way we suspect animals, experience, emotions. this was briefly discussed in the final chapter but I think would be really interesting to hear more about.

really interesting

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This guy should not he narrating a science oriented text, I can't listen to it, I've tried, just can't ..

I just st can't with the actor

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