Game Theory was wrong about what part of the brain fear comes from

The fear response does not come from the frontal lobe ."The frontal lobe is the part of the brain that controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexual behavior"

The Amygdala, which controls fear response, is located an inch or so from each ear. This part of the brain would not be damaged if the frontal lobe was removed.

"Patients with certain types of frontal lobe damage (including surgical removal) do not experience secondary emotions. However, frontal lobe patients do react to stimuli that engage the primary emotions, as shown by studies undertaken by Damasio and Daniel Tranel, a psycho-physiologist and experimental neuropsychologist at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. First, in order to get an objective measure of reactivity, two electrodes were hooked up to subjects’ skin to measure the conductivity of a small charge over the skin’s surface. Because emotion produces a degree of moisture, the amount of interference in the electrical conductivity easily measures the occurrence of an emotional reaction. A sudden sound was then made near the subject. Frontal lobe patients had the same startled fear reaction as subjects without brain damage. Even though the frontal lobe is damaged, the rest of the brain–including the amygdala and brain stem–is undamaged; therefore there is no obstacle to primary emotion. (As you’d expect, patients with amygdala damage did not show a fear reaction in this situation.)"

Source: http://brainconnection.brainhq.com/2000/05/26/the-emotional-brain/

Looks like Matt should have done his research a little bit better. ;)

Edit: I'm not attacking his personal theories about the bite or purple man or any of that in this post, just things that he said that were supposed to be based on actual scientific facts.

More information about the amgydala (Credit to u/Iustinus_Tempus): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3030206/