Humans have both a rational and an emotional system in their brains

It’s well-known in psychology that our brains have two independent systems that are involved when making decisions.

• The emotional side, known as the Reactive system
• The rational side, known as the Reflective system.

These two systems have been compared to the elephant and the rider.

References

Black, Stewart, Donald G. Gardner, Jon L. Pierce, and Richard Steers. “How the Brain Processes Information to Make Decisions: Reflective and Reactive Systems” In Organizational Behavior. OpenStax, 2019.