Individual Differences in Communicative Abilities

The article shows how the characteristics of the nervous system and the character of hemispheric interaction can affect the identification of emotional states through facial expression schemes (empathy) and through words (understanding) as mediational factors of these emotional states. The author proceeds from the assumption that correct identification of emotional states in the process of interpersonal interaction is one of the most important criteria of assessing communicative abilities. The author argues that communicative abilities' stability, the selectivity of reactions, and temporal characteristics are provided chiefly by the natural factors, that is, by the nervous system and the character of interaction between both hemispheres of the brain.

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