
Emotion and Reason
The cognitive neuroscience of decision making
Alain Berthoz(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 22. June 2006
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-19-856626-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Decision making is an area of profound importance to a wide range of specialties - for psychologists, economists, lawyers, clinicians, managers, and of course philosophers. Only relatively recently, though, have we begun to really understand how decision making processes are implemented in the brain, and how they might interact with our emotions. Emotions and Reason presents a groundbreaking new approach to understanding decision making processes and their neural bases. The book presents a sweeping survey of the science of decision making.
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...owing to the abundance of inspiring thoughts and propositions and the ardent writing style, I can highly recommend the book to any interested reader. * The Lancet, Vol 6 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
58 line illustrations and 5 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-856626-7 (9780198566267)
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Book
06/2006
Oxford University Press
€75.52
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Persons
Author
Director, Laboratory of Perception and Action, UMR/CNRS, College de France, Paris, France
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Content
PART I - IS DECISION MAKING RATIONAL OR IRRATIONAL?; PART II - DECISION MAKING WITH MY SECOND SELF; PART III - PERCEPTION, PREFERENCE AND DECISION MAKING; PART IV - MAGICAL THINKING