The neurologist Antonio Damasio, who has studied people
affected by decision-making deficits, discovered that feelings contribute to
the decision-making process and make advantageous choices possible without
having to make advantageous evaluations.[1]
Damasio observed that cognitive processes were added to
emotional ones, maintaining the centrality of emotions in the decision-making
process. This is evident in times of danger: when choices have to be made
quickly reason is bypassed.
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[1]
Damasio AR (1994), Descarte’s Error.
Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam Publishing, 1994.