Research in neuroscience has found that emotions are present in everything we do, including decision-making. In families, feelings can run strong, and emotions are always entangled in arguments. As a result, advisors need to engage in emotional discovery, a basic evaluation of critical areas of family life, such as partner relationships and parenting styles. They also need to assess the basic emotional disposition of family members—or what neuroscientists call core affect—which helps in understanding each person’s behavior.