Merkproduct The Emotional Brain The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life – Joseph LeDoux

LeDoux’s book provides a cutting-edge scientific background to such books as Daniel Goleman’s ‘Emotional Intelligence’, showing that while cognitive scientists have tended to ignore the emotions, we are increasingly understanding how crucial they are to our evolutionary survival, short-cuts to cut through conscious reasoning when speed and rules-of-thumb are more important and effective than logic.