Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, who helped pioneer the research that identified the amygdala as the part of the brain where fear begins, says of the neural systems that control our response to risk, "While conscious control over emotions is weak, emotions can flood consciousness.
Having weaker emotional function, they performed more rationally than investors with normal emotions!
"I should say that women have on the whole less brain power than men, less initiative and courage, and more highly strung nervous develop ment and weaker sex emotions.
Reason is weak and emotions are strong, but emotions can be balanced off each other.
You only really feel weak when emotions play into it, right?
Gordon rounded the bases, and by the time he returned to home plate he was nearly weak with emotion.
These include language that qualifies as direction giving ("Follow the plan"), but most of the themes appeal to soldiers' reason (by comparing their superior army to opponents' weaker forces) or emotions (by saying God is on their side or by highlighting the evilness of the enemy).
Indeed, if anything, the high > low conflict effect was weaker in the Emotion condition relative to Neutral (Figure 3), consistent with the absence of a significant conflict effect in this region when only the Emotion condition was examined.
Paired post hoc Bonferroni-corrected comparisons revealed significantly weaker counterfactually mediated emotion ratings in the child than in the YA group (mean difference 6.74, p = 0.037), while no other comparisons reached significance (Fig. 4).
Some take our responses instead to be weaker versions of ordinary emotions (Davies 1994, 299 307), others take them to share some aspects of ordinary emotions, such as their characteristic affective states, but to lack others, such as a specific intentional object (Levinson 1982, 319 22; Radford 1989).
