Healing the Reason-Emotion Split: Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard
Healing the Reason-Emotion Split draws on research from experimental psychology and neuroscience to dispel the myth that reason should be heralded above emotion.

Arguing that reason and emotion mutually benefit our decision-making abilities, the book explores the idea that understanding this relationship could have long-term advantages for our management of society’s biggest problems. Levine reviews how reason and emotion operated in historical movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism and 1960s' counterculture, to conclude that a successful society would restore human connection and foster compassion in economics and politics by equally utilizing reason and emotion.

Integrating discussion on classic and contemporary neurological studies and using allegory, the book lays out the potential for societal change through compassion, and would be of interest to psychologists concerned with social implications of their fields, philosophy students, social activists, and religious leaders.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

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Healing the Reason-Emotion Split: Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard
Healing the Reason-Emotion Split draws on research from experimental psychology and neuroscience to dispel the myth that reason should be heralded above emotion.

Arguing that reason and emotion mutually benefit our decision-making abilities, the book explores the idea that understanding this relationship could have long-term advantages for our management of society’s biggest problems. Levine reviews how reason and emotion operated in historical movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism and 1960s' counterculture, to conclude that a successful society would restore human connection and foster compassion in economics and politics by equally utilizing reason and emotion.

Integrating discussion on classic and contemporary neurological studies and using allegory, the book lays out the potential for societal change through compassion, and would be of interest to psychologists concerned with social implications of their fields, philosophy students, social activists, and religious leaders.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

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Healing the Reason-Emotion Split: Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard

Healing the Reason-Emotion Split: Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard

by Daniel S. Levine
Healing the Reason-Emotion Split: Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard

Healing the Reason-Emotion Split: Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard

by Daniel S. Levine

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Healing the Reason-Emotion Split draws on research from experimental psychology and neuroscience to dispel the myth that reason should be heralded above emotion.

Arguing that reason and emotion mutually benefit our decision-making abilities, the book explores the idea that understanding this relationship could have long-term advantages for our management of society’s biggest problems. Levine reviews how reason and emotion operated in historical movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism and 1960s' counterculture, to conclude that a successful society would restore human connection and foster compassion in economics and politics by equally utilizing reason and emotion.

Integrating discussion on classic and contemporary neurological studies and using allegory, the book lays out the potential for societal change through compassion, and would be of interest to psychologists concerned with social implications of their fields, philosophy students, social activists, and religious leaders.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367856830
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/30/2020
Pages: 158
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel S. Levine is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, and a Fellow and former President of the International Neural Network Society.

Table of Contents

Preface viii

Acknowledgments x

1 Minds to Match Our Challenges 1

2 What Can Neuroscience Tell Us? 16

3 What Can Psychology Tell Us? 38

4 The Ruling Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow Rebellion 57

5 Where is the Wizard? 78

6 The Compassionate Revolution 104

Bibliography 125

Index 143

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