Curious Emotions: Roots of Consciousness and Personality in Motivated Action

by Ralph D. Ellis

Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on endogenous motivations to engage certain levels of energy and complexity. Thus understanding personality, cognition, consciousness and action requires examining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027251975
• ISBN13: 9789027251978
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 238 Pages