“…Animal Emotions: How They Drive Human Behavior gives a concise overview of ancient mammalian emotions deeply rooted in the human brain. Jaak Panksepp, a world-renowned neuroscientist, dedicated his life career to the study of mammalian emotions and he carved out seven distinct emotional systems he called seeking, lust, care, and play (positive emotions), and fear, anger, and sadness (negative emotions), all exerting a tremendous influence on human behavior.Christian Montag, a neuroscientist and psychologist, and a long-time collaborator of Jaak Panksepp, revisits together with Kenneth L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eysenck -- Biological foundations : the seeking system as an affective source for motivation and cognition / Jeff Stewart and Jaak Panksepp -- Motivation, cognition and emotion : a phylogenetic interdisciplinary approach / Manfred Wimmer -- The social and cultural context of cognition : a knowledge perspective / Evelyn Au, Wendy Wan & Chi-yue Chiu -- Biological models of organisms and their evolutionary change : their importance for epistemology and different cultural traditions / Karl Edlinger -- What do genes have to do with cognition? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An intellectual biography of Jaak Panksepp; 3. An intellectual biography of James Russell; 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Blum -- Adam Zeman -- Jaak Panksepp (1943- 2017) -- Miquel Llorente Espino -- Pablo Herreros Ubalde (1976-2018) -- Frans de Waal -- Víctor Corral Verdugo -- Belisario Zanabria Moreno -- Alejandro Solalinde Guerra -- Robert J. …”

“…Accordingly, the papers of this volume by leading students of emotion such as Jaak Panksepp, Luc Ciompi, Thomas Natsoulas, Farzaneh Pahlavan, Michela Balconi, Todd Lubart, Louise Sundararajan, Jordan Petersen and others address three main issues: I. …”