A Very Emotional Brain

James Teboul () and Philippe Damier ()
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James Teboul: INSEAD
Philippe Damier: Nantes University

Chapter Chapter 4 in Neuroleadership, 2023, pp 35-48 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The brain works primarily with affects and emotions, and reason is built on the foundation of affects. Current research in neuroscience shows that the dichotomy between reason and emotion is illusory and false. We appraise our internal states and our environment with affects that are the result of a continuous internal process called interoception, and our rational reasoning does not have direct control over our affects. Emotion is the energy that drives, organizes, amplifies, or dampens cognitive activity. Consequently, good leaders should draw on their emotional intelligence. The two main emotional mechanisms that help us react and rapidly adapt are the fear circuit and the reward circuit. In the system of pleasure seeking, dopamine, a powerful stimulator, drives the quest for reward and novelty. Deferral of the urges of this reward circuit, and exercising willpower, requires activation of the dopamine control circuit incurring a high cost in brain energy.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-5122-2_4

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