Emotions And Social Intelligence

The keys to build an alliance between the sentiments and reason.

Are reason and the sentiments compatible? Can we achieve a balance between them? Are we rational or emotional beings? Why is it so hard to control our feelings? Do we make decisions by reasoning, or dragged along by our emotions? Can men or women control their emotions better? Do emotions have an influence on intelligence?

Nothing makes us feel as human as our emotions—so human, and so dependent on them, that when a powerful sentiment takes hold of us, it fills almost all our mental space and takes up a great deal of our time. If that feeling is undesirable, there’s only one way to get rid of it and banish it from our minds, and that is another emotion, another sentiment more powerful and incompatible with the one we want to uproot. Drawing on the latest experiments and scientific research, Ignacio Morgado describes the emotional brain and how sentiment affects perceptions, memory, communication, decision-making, planning for the future, creativity, and individuals’ morals and value systems. A useful and thrilling work for learning to manage and transform the emotions and sentiments.