This book presents the wealth of scientific evidence that our personalityemerges from evolved primary emotions shared by all mammals. Yes, your dogfeels love—and many other things too. These subcortically generated emotionsbias our actions, alter our perceptions, guide our learning, provide the basisfor our thoughts and memories, and become regulated over the course of ourlives.Understanding personality development from the perspective of mammals is agroundbreaking approach, and one that sheds new light on the ways in which weas humans respond to life events, both good and bad.Jaak Panksepp, famous for discovering laughter in rats and for creating thefield of affective neuroscience, died in April 2017. This book forms part ofhis lasting legacy and impact on a wide range of scientific and humanisticdisciplines. It will be essential reading for anyone trying to understand howwe act in the world, and the world’s impact on us.words : 132586