Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Let’s distill the past two years of publications by repeating the theme, and listing the core principles, tenets, concepts, and heuristics. (Original columns are cited and linked.)

Years of research and work by Antonio Damasio, a professor of neuroscience and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California Dornsife in Los Angeles, as well as others, that includes sophisticated studies with magnetic image scanning of the brain, has concluded that decision making is a holistic process that integrates logic, emotion, and values.

The traditional duality of separating reason and emotion is simplistic … and dangerously inaccurate. Getting the Feel of Feelings, 34 Alternatives (July/August, 2016)(available at https://bit.ly/2C1rLCS).