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In this article we will highlight a study that proves humans feel before they think.
Experts have often reported that we feel first and think later. This is probably not news to many readers. There is a new study, however, that again verifies that assumption. Ross Flom, from Brigham Young University, led a study in which it was proved that babies as young as 6 months can tell the difference between a dog barking in happiness and one who is barking in anger or distress.
The experiment, reported in Developmental Psychology, placed babies in front of photos of a dog, one friendly and the other hostile. The researchers accompanied the photos with a random mix of audio recordings of welcoming and hostile barks.
The babies were able to correctly identify the photo that aligned with the audio almost 100% of the time. In the absence of the audio, the photos attracted minimal attention.
This study has implications for trainers, teachers, speakers, and anyone who hopes to communicate a message successfully. People hear at a level of emotion and intensity that overpowers both words and visuals. Trainers, teachers, and speakers can therefore be more successful if they ensure the subconscious emotional tone is aligned with the overall message being presented.
Georgi Lozanov, the father of accelerated learning, once commented that the “instructor must be completely congruent with the subject being taught.” Yet again, Lozanov has been proven correct.
Emotion does indeed rule behavior.
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Yes we feel before we think. Thinking IS feeling, at the next level. First we know what we feel, then we feel what we know. In between, we test our intuition and reality tells us whether we were right or not. Emotions have rationality embedded in them and it doesn't show until the initiative is transferred from the environment or other, to the organism or self. Then they start to lead the knowing organism, exploring the known environment.
pmmphilosophicaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-emotions-relate-to-rationality.html
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