Emotional Ignorance: Lost and found in the science of emotion

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Aside from the detailed anatomy, the rest of the information is very general, more of his musings than fact, and deludes into social diatribes by the end of the book. This is why certain events will not only be remembered differently, but in different light, when you learn of new relevant information. I do feel mean for not giving this book a full 5 star rating, but I am putting the emotion to one side for the moment.

It goes on to examine how pleasure and pain tread a fine line (one reason, Burnett suggests, why 50 Shades Of Grey was so popular – and so badly written), in the process expelling various myths around BDSM practises. This experience has taught Burnett to not disregard or reject the emotions he’s feeling, as emotional pain is equivalent to pain caused by physical injury or illness.The book is specific and wordy but also too general; it is like baking a casserole that comes out simultaneously burnt and raw!

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This is a very informative book about how the brain generates emotion and how it is both unpredictable and functional in how we think and act. The structure resumed in the Conclusion though, which I thought pulled the book together well, thus bumping my score back up a little.But that’s just not an inaccurate representation, but ignores the many important processes in our brains that are dependent on the very existence of emotions and the healthy regulation thereof. Understanding emotions and the broader role they play is crucial to an accurate and scientific understanding of how we think. For those who are interested in emotion, there's absolutely nothing new or presented in a unique way. Het had dus een goed boek kunnen zijn over een interessant onderwerp als het op een toegankelijkere en duidelijkere manier was uitgewerkt.