PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Electrodermal Activity, Prefrontal Cortex, Phineas Gage
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Humans recognize other people"s feelings by means of vision and audition seeing their facial expressions and hearing their tone of voice and choice of words. Many studies have found that right hemisphere plays a more important role than left hemisphere in comprehension of emotion (the tone of voice) So the left side of the face shows the emotion more intensely. When people have to rely on meaning of words to determine the emotion, there is more activity in the left hemisphere. When they rely on the tone of voice to determine the emotion, there is more activity in the right hemisphere. Evidence indicates that amygdala is involved in emotional responses in humans. Most human fears are probably acquired socially, not through firsthand experience with painful stimuli. For example, a child does not have to be attacked by a dog to develop a fear of dogs.
