Date: 2006

"While the amygdala's role as a sentinel and trigger for distress is old news to neuroscience, its social role, as part of the brain's system for emotional contagion, has been revealed only recently."

— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)

Date: 2007

"And at the same time, a censor somewhere in my brain was simplifying things for me, helping me to cope with the necessary."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: Summer 2009

"It is in this sense that the first-personal perspective is strictly unavoidable: I am not a passenger on a vessel pulled hither and yon by impulses and desires; I have to steer."

— Pippin, Robert B. (b. 1948)

Date: March 31, 2009

"We use emotions, the brain's steersman, to assign value to our experiences and to future possibilities, often allowing us to evaluate potential outcomes efficiently and rapidly when information is uncertain."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam

Date: December 19, 2010

"But it’s one thing to make deals to advance your goals; it’s another to open the door to zombie ideas."

— Krugman, Paul (b. 1953)

Date: 2010

"These ideas are neither alive nor dead; rather as Paul Krugman has said, they are undead, or zombie ideas."

— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)

Date: 2010

"The zombie ideas that brought the global financial system to the brink of meltdown, and have already caused thousands of firms to fail and cost millions of workers their jobs, still walk among us."

— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)

Date: 2010

"If we do not kill these zombie ideas once and for all, they will do even more damage next time."

— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)

Date: 2010

"A zombie idea is one that keeps coming back, despite being killed."

— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)

Date: 2010

"But zombie ideas are not so easily killed."

— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)