Emotional Life of Your BrainRichard J. Davidson, Sharon Begley
Emotional Life of Your Brain
by Richard J. Davidson, Sharon Begley · first published 2013
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There's a book you might want to recommend: "The emotional life of your brain" by Richard Davidson. Written by a neuroscientist, it gives a thorough, scientifically tested framework for classifying traits of personality and changing them.
on “You Can Change Your Personality” ↗Best, and most scientific [0] book in this regard: "the emotional life of your brain" by Richard J. Davidson. One of the TLDR: the feeling of being happy and being sad are not the same brain-function with a sign reversed. Just because you're not happy doesn't imply you are sad and vice…
on “The Life Project: British cohort study turns 70” ↗Optimism is just one side of the story. A modern and experimentally grounded system of "emotional styles" is provided by neuro-scientist Richard J. Davidson, in his book "The emotional life of your brain". A bit more nuanced than the "Big Five", he maps emotional traits along six axes: resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context and attention. Optimism would be "outlook"…
on “Optimism” ↗I can't recommend this often enough: Check out "The emotional life of your brain" by Richard Davidson and Sharon Begley. It is applied neuro-science. A refined version of the "big five" character traits along with scientifically verified explanations where they originate in the brain…
on “The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions” ↗