The Emotional Brain Revisited

by Joseph E. LeDoux (Editor), Bartosz Brożek (Editor), Jacek Dębiec (Editor)

The Emotional Brain Revisited tackles various issues at play in the current neuroscientific, psychological, and philosophical research on emotions. The book discusses such topics as the role of amygdala in the emergence of emotions, the place of the affect within the psychological construction of the agent, insights from the research on emotions in animals, and the relation between emotions, rationality, morality, and law. Furthermore, various conceptual controversies underlying the empirical studies on emotions are considered.

Genres: Psychology, Neuroscience, Nonfiction, Science, Emotion, Mental Health, Brain

372 pages, Hardcover

First published June 4, 2014