Description:
A CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2018.
A novel approach to understanding personality, based on evidence that we share more than we realize with other mammals.
Brief description: Ken Davis completed his PhD under Jaak Panksepp at Bowling Green State University; they worked on an assessment and theory of personality for twenty years.
Review Quotes: Modern neuroscience understands, at long last, the brain basis of emotions. But how do emotions become personality? This remarkable book explores Darwin's insights, personality variation across species (from fish to primates), and the modern neuroscience of feelings. Importantly, it also has a lively account of the probable brain science behind the "big five" personality traits. Highly readable, it is part survey, critique, and explanatory model, tackling a key question in modern neuroscience: what makes us different?--Oliver Turnbull, Professor of Neuropsychology, Bangor University, Wales, UK