The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Author: Joseph E. LeDoux
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 ma….Read More
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