Making sense of emotion: evolution, reason & the brain.

From: Daedalus | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

We often define the basic goals of human striving in terms of emotion: we yearn for happiness and do our utmost to avoid misery. (1) But making the distinction between positive and negative emotions is not as simple as saying that we seek the former and shun the latter. Emotions often have a will of their own and may resist attempts to be disciplined. Victims of wartime atrocities and natural disasters, for example, may unwillingly suffer from involuntary flashbacks in which they re-experience the trauma, eliciting intense fright that threatens or undermines adjustment. But some ...

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