The Nature of the Beast Audiobook Libro.fm

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Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day Does your cat purr because she loves you Do bears attack when theyre angry You cant very well ask them In fact scientists havent been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do let alone how to study them Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illnessIn The Nature of the Beast pioneering neuroscientist David J Anderson describes a new approach to solving this problem He and his colleagues have figured out how to study the brain activity of animals as they navigate reallife scenarios like fleeing a predator or competing for a mate His research has revolutionized what we know about animal fear and aggression Here he explains what studying emotions and related internal brain states in animals can teach us about human behavior offering new insights into why isolation makes us more aggressive how sex and violence connect and whether theres a link between aggression and mental illnessFull of fascinating stories The Nature of the Beast reconceptualizes how the brain regulates emotionsand explains why we have them at all