...Finally, at even greater levels of intensity, affect can be so powerful as to virtually preclude decision-making. No one ‘decides’ to fall asleep at the wheel, but many people do. Under the influence of intense affective motivation, people often report themselves as being ‘out of control’...As Rita Carter writes in Mapping the Mind, ‘where thought conflicts with emotion, the latter is designed by neural circuitry in our brains to win’.
Camerer et al.(2004)
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