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The Emotional Foundations of Personality

A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach
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The Emotional Foundations of Personality by Kenneth L. Davis and Jaak Panksepp explores how fundamental emotional systems shape personality traits. Grounded in the interplay between neuroscience and psychology, the book delves into how emotions underlie our character and behaviour, offering insights into the biological basis of personality. By examining primal emotional circuits, the authors provide a framework for understanding individual differences in temperament and behaviour.
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This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by the interplay between emotions and personality, as it delves into the biological and psychological mechanisms shaping who we are. Ideal for those interested in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, it provides a comprehensive exploration of how emotional processes underpin our behaviours and identities.

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The Emotional Foundations of Personality

A novel approach to understanding personality, based on evidence that we share more than we realise with other mammals.

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This book presents the wealth of scientific evidence that our personality emerges from evolved primary emotions shared by all mammals. Yes, your dog feels love—and many other things too. These subcortically generated emotions bias our actions, alter our perceptions, guide our learning, provide the basis for our thoughts and memories, and become regulated over the course of our lives.

Understanding personality development from the perspective of mammals is a groundbreaking approach, and one that sheds new light on the ways in which we as humans respond to life events, both good and bad.

Jaak Panksepp, famous for discovering laughter in rats and for creating the field of affective neuroscience, died in April 2017. This book forms part of his lasting legacy and impact on a wide range of scientific and humanistic disciplines. It will be essential reading for anyone trying to understand how we act in the world, and the world's impact on us.

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The Emotional Foundations of Personality is praised for the comprehensive work of Jaak Panksepp on the intersection of behaviour, mind, and brain. Antonio Damasio highlights Panksepp's significant contributions to understanding these complex areas.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393710571

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 March 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Mark Solms

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 168.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 682g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Ken Davis completed his PhD under Jaak Panksepp at Bowling Green State University; they worked on an assessment and theory of personality for twenty years. Jaak Panksepp, PhD, was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, emeritus Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University, and the Head of Northwestern University's Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics. Mark Solms discovered the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming. He is director of neuropsychology of the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he lives. He is also honorary lecturer in neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School and honorary Fellow at the American College of Psychiatrists.

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