How We Decide

by Jonah Lehrer

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Lehrer explores the neuroscience of decisions, showing emotions and reason are collaborators, not opponents. Knowing when to trust gut feeling versus deliberate analysis is the real cognitive skill.

Published:: 2009
Pages:: 302

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Cites Goleman's Emotional Intelligence work on how emotions are essential, not obstacles, to good decisions

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Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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