Decision making, emotion, and the brain

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Decision making, emotion, and the brain

• Geir Overskeid
• http//on.to/geir

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What is thinking?

• Thinking is a process that helps us make choices
• Thinking helps us choose among possible actions,
  beliefs or goals
• In achieving this, decision making has a central
  role

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Different decisions

• We are unconscious of most things that happen.
  This includes what goes on in our brains.
• Most decisions are automatic. They are mostly
  unconscious.
• Sometimes, however, conscious thinking is needed