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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by roughly on Monday February 28, 2022 @02:33PM (#30504012)
There have been studies that have associated emotion with decision making - people who, for some reason, lack an emotional state, find it basically impossible to make a decision.
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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by meken on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:09PM (#30504482)
That’s interesting. Any chance you remember which study it was?
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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by nonameiguess on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:11PM (#30505887)
It's from a book by Antonio Damasio called Descartes' Error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes'_Error

The first known case is Phineas Gage, but I'm pretty sure Damasio documented more contemporary patients he had studied live (been a while since I read this book).

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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by epgui on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:58PM (#30506354)
Phineas Gage is a terrible example: he suffered incredible frontal lobe injuries. Neuroanatomy is much more complex than "part A performs job X", but the frontal lobe is particularly important in executive functions. More caudal structures are more closely associated with emotion, in general.
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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by nonameiguess on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:43PM (#30506844)
Damasio bases his conclusions on his own patients, not Phineas Gage, who is provided as a famous example for historical context. The only reason I'm mentioning only him by name is I remember his name and I do not remember the names of Damasio's patients. I actually think he doesn't even give their real names since they're patients and subject to confidentiality laws.
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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by epgui on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:26PM (#30507947)
Fair enough! I'm not familiar with the book.
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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by kibbleble on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @02:20PM (#30531590)
Not OP but I also looked into it and agree: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2019.0001...
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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by roughly on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:33PM (#30504751)
I wish I did. I'll take a look later and see if I can dig them up.
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Re:Anger and fear: ten years of research in the lab and field by mistrial9 on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:32PM (#30506732)
context on what kind of decision, at that time of day or night, under what mental conditions.. would be very telling.. too broad as stated
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