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There are some studies that seem to indicate decision making is inhibited when emotions are inhibited. That is, you can ask someone to explain what the rational choice is, and justify it, but they will not actually make that choice until an emotional prompt spurs them on. They can be very, very good at planning extensively but won't take action. The study I'm thinking of was on brain-damaged patients without emotion but perfectly intact reasoning.

So I wonder how that fits in with what you've experienced. Is analysis through CBT in fact opening up new information to change how you feel about certain things (rationality induced emotion, spurring change)? Or perhaps I am misunderstanding the conclusion (I've seen it presented as such elsewhere so I'm not the only one).

> His insight, dating back to the early 1990s, stemmed from the clinical study of brain lesions in patients unable to make good decisions because their emotions were impaired, but whose reason was otherwise unaffected

https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/06/17/172310/the-impor...



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