The Emotional Foundations of Human Personality : A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach

This book presents the wealth of scientific evidence that our personality emerges from evolved primary emotions shared by all mammals. Yes, your dog feels love—and many other things too. These subcortically generated emotions bias our actions, alter our perceptions, guide our learning, provide the basis for our thoughts and memories, and become regulated over the course of our lives. Play is one of the seven subcortically generated emotions Panksepp covers in this landmark book.