Why do we typically react to sound faster than we react to visuals?
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The other answers are all good. But I think you’re missing something. Humans are visual dominant creatures. “Seeing is believing”.
When you hear a sound, smell a fire, taste a dead bug, or feel a creepy crawlie on your skin…you need to look right away and find the danger and assess it so you can react.
Think of the number of times you’ve seen a book or a glass of water precariously perched and then the cat or your roommate knocks it over. You know it was that book. But 9/10 times you’re going to look to confirm what you logically know is the only possible answer.
So…I think you’re not seeing the visual reaction as much. But then again it could also be that visuals do interfere with reaction. People will freeze at the sight of a snake or faint at the sight of blood…even though aurally they know what’s going on before they looked too. But I think the main answer is still that people trust sight and don’t trust other senses until they’ve been confirmed by sight.
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