Damasio's colleague Dan Tranel did experiments in which people were shown a series of
emotionally powerful images — towns destroyed by earthquakes, people drowning in floods — and monitored their body's autonomic response, which is partially regulated by the amygdala.
Not exact matches
But if outsourcing the graphic elements to a visual designer isn't an option, you can make lessons more memorable simply by using
images that are recognizable,
emotionally powerful, and contextual.
The process is automatic and the cascades are especially
powerful for events or
images that are
emotionally loaded.
Image credit:: Tumbling Green Popcorn, Flickr, a2thegeezus By George Grattan Earlier this week I joined a number of Earthwatch colleagues and other interested filmgoers at a screening of the documentary Flow, an
emotionally powerful (but narratively flawed) examination and indictment of the privatization of fresh water supplies throughout the world.