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Key ideas from the book
- Exuberance is examined as an emotion with significance for learning, risk-taking, social cohesion, and survival.
- The book considers how exuberance appears in settings ranging from children’s play to scientific work.
- Jamison explores whether a tendency toward exuberance can be inherited.
- The discussion includes the neurochemistry associated with exuberance.
- The book considers methods people have used to encourage or stimulate exuberance.
About Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison examines exuberance as an intense, life-affirming emotion and considers its importance to learning, risk-taking, social cohesion, and survival. She traces its expression from children’s play to scientific breakthroughs, bringing scientific inquiry together with examples from public figures and popular culture.
The book also considers whether exuberance can be inherited, explores its neurochemical basis, and discusses ways people have sought to stimulate it. Readers interested in psychology, emotion, and the connections between science and human experience will find a wide-ranging study of a state of mind often overshadowed by attention to psychological distress.
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