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Abstract
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Summary
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Table of Contents
Contents:
I Context
II Emotions
III Choices
6. Choices
7. Rational Logical Choice making
8. Emotional Choice Making
9. How Choices Affect Emotions – Do more options lead to happiness?
10. Relationship between Feeling and Thinking – The concept of Affect Logic
11. Physiology of Choice making – The Brain and Hormones
12. The Significance of Emotions in Making Choices
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REPORT TEXT
I Context
II Emotions
III Choices
18. Choices
19. Rational Logical Choice making
(Emotions in Decision making – An Essential Element Brian McAboy 2006 by New Ireland
Ventures ) See Pg 5, 6, 7
“Anticipatory Biases”: This basically means that before a decision to be made even reaches the
cognitive portion of the brain, the emotional process has begun evaluating the various inputs
related to that decision. This is vital to the speed at which we are able to make decisions.
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The most elemental emotional decision is one of assigning importance. This has to occur prior to
reaching the cognitive portion of the brain; otherwise you’d be overwhelmed with trivial
decisions and selecting where to focus your attention.
22. Relationship between Feeling and Thinking – The concept of Affect Logic
REFER TO paper Affect Logic 1997
The studies of decision-making in neurological patients who can no longer process emotional
information normally suggest that people make judgments not only by evaluating the consequences
and their probability of occurring, but also and even sometimes primarily at a gut or emotional level.
Lesions of the ventromedial (which includes the orbitofrontal) sector of the prefrontal cortex interfere
with the normal processing of ‘‘somatic’’ or emotional signals, while sparing most basic cognitive
functions. Such damage leads to impairments in the decision-making process, which seriously
compromise the quality of decisions in daily life.
REFER TO BECHARA
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[De Sousa, R.: Why think? Evolution and the Rational Mind.
Oxford Unversity Press, Oxford, New York, 2002,]
Antonio Damasio has come to similar conclusions, but from the perspective
of neuroscience and psychology. His definitions of emotions and feelings and
the roles they play in decision making will be dealt with more thoroughly in
the following sections.
His first book, entitled Descartes’ Error, Damasio deals with the role of
emotions and feelings in decision making. As its very title suggests, Damasio
feels that Descartes wrongly identified rational decision making as being
immaterial and separate from emotions.
De Martino’s Experiment
REFER to Affect Logic Paper
I am trying to work on this section VI. Everyone please chip in with your
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Appendix
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