Emotion and Decision Making Explained
Emotion and Decision Making Explained by Edmund T. Rolls, published by OUP Oxford in 2014, is an illustrated volume comprising 710 pages. This book explores fundamental questions surrounding emotions, including their origins, functions, and the relationship between emotional states and decision-making processes. It delves into how emotions are represented in the brain and examines the implications of these findings for fields such as neuroscience, psychology, and economics.
Readers will find a comprehensive examination of various topics, including the adaptive value of emotions, the brain mechanisms underlying emotional responses, and the interplay between affective states and motivated behavior. The book also addresses neuroeconomics and its potential to reshape our understanding of economic value and decision-making. With a focus on the physiological and psychological aspects of emotion, this edition serves as a resource for professionals and students in neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, and related disciplines.
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What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relation between emotion, and reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of a good represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and emotions in the interests of the genes, and does rational multistep planning enable us to go beyond selfish genes to long-term plans and social contracts in the interests of the individual? This book seeks explanations of emotion and decision-making by considering these questions. The topics covered include: The nature of emotion, and a theory of emotion The functions of emotion, including a Darwinian theory of the adaptive value of emotion, which helps to illuminate many aspects of brain design and behaviour The brain mechanisms of emotion Affective states and motivated behaviour: hunger and sexual behaviour The pharmacology of emotion, and brain mechanisms for action Neuroeconomics, and the foundation of economic value Decision-making Emotional feelings, and consciousness Neural networks involved in emotion The book will be valuable for those in the fields of neuroscience and neurology, psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy
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