What Are Emotions For?

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In the last chapter your book, you talked about am a danny conomans system one, system two Thinking. But it's really kind of an emotion, isn't it? A feeling? Yes, but an emotions interact with you conscious but its yourour unconscious processing is broader than that. While you have an emotion, that as hat extra step of processing where you could have a more nuance decision. Andand you make a decision based on the emotion plus other considerations that allows you to make or nuance decision.

xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.

Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…