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No cognitive neuroscientist should ever conduct an experiment in the domain of emotions without reading this book, twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParashkev Nachev, Institute of Neurology, UCL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is not a slack moment in the whole of this impressive work. With his remarkable facility for making fine distinctions, and his commitment to lucidity, Peter Hacker has subtly characterised those emotions such as pride, shame, envy, jealousy, love or sympathy which make up our all too human nature. 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