We've often point out how Brahma Kumarism appeals to the emotional rather than reasonable or logic aspects of individuals' being, and how much the Brahma Kumaris exploit individuals' emotional responses, but it's not an area that we really explore in depth, nor one that I have read up on at all.
From The ISRE's Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect that contains many interesting articles about the nature of love, guilt and disgust, emotional intelligence, and the use and consequences of emotions in public life etc, and the part of the brain in them, from a scientific perspective.
One focusing on 'Affective Intelligence Theory and the theory of emotional intelligence', exploring lessons from neuroscience that show consciousness as the “Tip of an Iceberg”, pulls on threads which may well apply to BKism when it discusses how politicians have "thrown out the whole epistemology of governing by facts in favor of governing by assertions ... assertions [that] aren’t empty ... [but] are weapons against reason, which means they’re attacks on the ideas of justice, science, and culture.
It suggests that unconscious neural activity, including pre-conscious appraisals and executive control, is actually in charge of much of human behaviour.
From The ISRE's Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect that contains many interesting articles about the nature of love, guilt and disgust, emotional intelligence, and the use and consequences of emotions in public life etc, and the part of the brain in them, from a scientific perspective.
One focusing on 'Affective Intelligence Theory and the theory of emotional intelligence', exploring lessons from neuroscience that show consciousness as the “Tip of an Iceberg”, pulls on threads which may well apply to BKism when it discusses how politicians have "thrown out the whole epistemology of governing by facts in favor of governing by assertions ... assertions [that] aren’t empty ... [but] are weapons against reason, which means they’re attacks on the ideas of justice, science, and culture.
It suggests that unconscious neural activity, including pre-conscious appraisals and executive control, is actually in charge of much of human behaviour.
It goes without saying that the brain produces emotions—in this day and age, you’d have to be a pretty staunch dualist to argue otherwise. The big question that remains concerns how the brain creates emotions ...
Recent decades have witnessed a knowledge explosion about all aspects of brain function.
Neuroscience studies of emotion have also multiplied, using a wide array of methods from the molecular to the systems level across multiple species. Relatively recently, functional neuroimaging, primarily in the form of functional MRI (fMRI) has assumed a leading role in examining the brain basis of human emotion, with hundreds of papers published to date investigating a wide range of emotion phenomena.
Substantial advances have been made in understanding the neural mechanisms involved in specific emotion domains, ranging from facial emotion processing to emotional memory.