Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley Books
Richard J. Davidson is a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds.
Known for: The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You Can Change Them
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The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You Can Change Them
In this groundbreaking work, neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson and science writer Sharon Begley explore how individual differences in brain activity shape our emotional lives. Drawing on decades of research, Davidson identifies six dimensions of emotional style—resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context, and attention—and explains how these patterns are rooted in specific brain circuits. The book also offers evidence-based strategies for reshaping these neural patterns to enhance well-being and emotional balance.
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The Neuroscience of Emotion
To understand emotional style, we must first appreciate the machinery of the mind that produces it. Emotion begins as a physiological response — a surge of activity flowing through neural networks connecting ancient limbic structures like the amygdala with newer executive regions such as the prefron...
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Defining Emotional Style
Imagine your emotional life as a multidimensional space shaped by six core tendencies. Each dimension reflects a continuum — ranging from one extreme to another — grounded in identifiable patterns of brain activity. The first dimension, resilience, measures how quickly you recover after adversity. T...
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About Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley
Richard J. Davidson is a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds. Sharon Begley was an award-winning science journalist known for her work with Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.
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