Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-American neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. He was known in the popular press for his research on laughter in non-human animals.

Jaak Panksepp

Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions – ⁠https://amzn.to/49YPkJ0⁠

The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions – ⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3WmQJ8V⁠

The Emotional Foundations of Personality: A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach – ⁠https://amzn.to/4afUL6F⁠

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