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"For millennia, we have viewed thinking and feeling as fundamentally opposed processes. According to this persistent, age-old belief, to truly live well we must marshal our logical and rational capacities to master our emotions. This perceived dichotomy lies at the heart of our historical pursuits in theology, philosophy, and psychology. But extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience, including neuroimaging and other related technologies, have cast doubt upon this traditional conception and led to a revolution in the science of emotions. In Emotion, Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a captivating journey to the frontier of this new field. Here, we discover that a surprising variety of animals experience emotion-even creatures as simple as fruit flies and bees. We ponder the evolutionary purpose of emotion and the role it plays in our brains. We venture into the labs of pioneering scientists, some who have made incredible contributions in neuroscience and others who have flirted with disaster. We enter the high-stakes world of finance and see how emotion affects decision making on the trading room floor. What emerges from our investigations is that we have long fundamentally misunderstood the role of emotions in our lives. Contrary to ancient wisdom, we begin to see that emotions aren't an obstacle to our incredible human ability to reason, but are an integral component of it"--

 

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

PART I What Is Emotion?

1 Thought Versus Feeling

3 (21)

What is emotion, and how have our ideas about feelings evolved over the ages?

2 The Purpose of Emotion

24 (16)

The evolutionary objective of emotions, and how emotions differ in animals ranging from insects to humans

3 The Mind-Body Connection

40 (27)

How your physical state influences what you think and feel

PART II Pleasure, Motivation, Inspiration, Determination

4 How Emotions Guide Thought

67 (26)

Emotions as a mental state that influences our information processing

5 Where Feelings Come From

93 (16)

How the brain constructs emotion

6 Motivation: Wanting Versus Liking

109 (27)

The origin of desire and pleasure in the brain and how they motivate you

7 Determination

136 (21)

How emotions can create an iron will

PART III Emotional Tendencies and Control

8 Your Emotional Profile

157 (26)

Assessing which emotions you are more inclined to feel, and the manner in which you tend to react to potentially emotional situations

9 Managing Emotions

183 (20)

How to regulate your emotions

Epilogue: The Goodbye 203 (6)

Acknowledgments 209 (2)

Notes 211 (20)

Index 231