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Emotion and Decision-Making
Explained
Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-965989-0
What
produces emotions?
Why
do we have emotions?
How
do we have emotions?
Why
do emotional states feel like something?
What
is the relation between emotion, reward value, and subjective feelings
of pleasure?
How
is the value of a good represented in the brain?
Will
neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics?
How
does the brain implement emotion and decision-making?
Are
gene-defined rewards and emotions in the interests of the genes?
Does
rational multistep planning enable us to go beyond selfish genes to
plans in
the interests of the individual?
This
book seeks explanations of
emotion and decision-making by considering these questions.
The
book provides a unified
approach to emotion, reward value, economic value, and decision-making,
and
their brain mechanisms. The evolutionary, adaptive value of the
processes
involved in emotion, the neural networks involved in emotion and
decision-making, and the issue of conscious emotional feelings are all
considered.
The
topics covered include:
The nature of emotion, and a theory of emotion
The functions of
emotion, including a Darwinian theory of the adaptive value of emotion,
which helps to illuminate many aspects of brain design and behaviour
The brain mechanisms of emotion
Affective states and motivated behaviour: hunger and sexual behaviour
The pharmacology of emotion, and brain mechanisms for action
Neuroeconomics, and the foundation of economic value
Decision-making
Emotional
feelings, and consciousness
Neural networks involved in emotion
Emotion
and Decision-Making
Explained will be valuable for those in the fields of neuroscience,
neurology,
psychology, psychiatry, biology, animal behaviour, economics, and
philosophy
from the advanced undergraduate level upwards, and for all interested
in
emotion and decision-making.
The
picture on the cover is ‘Adam
and Eve’ painted in c. 1528 by Lucas Cranach the Elder, which provides
an early
interpretation of early human emotions, and emotion-related
decision-making.
This book provides a more recent, scientific, approach to emotions, and
to
decision-making.
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