Comments on: Recent News From Our Research Division v.1

By: Humintell Admin

Humintell Admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:19:39 +0000

Warren, Thank you for your comment. I will put your question under the latest “Submit your question to Dr. Matsumoto” blog topic.

By: Andrew Boughton

Andrew Boughton — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:21:34 +0000

I’ve been a follower of both Dr. Matsumoto and Dr. Ekman for years. I’ve incorporated their deception detection research into the negotiation training programs I’ve delivered to my fortune 500 clients, with excellent results. The applicability to commercial negotiation is not only obvious, but is the difference between an average negotiator and a skilled negotiator. Thanks again Dr. Matsumoto for all of your support. For more info on deception detection and negotiation check out my blog at http://bit.ly/61YfKZ

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:21:53 +0000

I did the free METT 1 training access code today. The pictures are very useful because I have lived in Japan for about ten years and there are a lot of asian people in this data set so this set was a valuable surprise for me. I did the poorest so-far with this set, a low 64% at test, which interests me. Perhaps I have relatively low adaptation to recognizing asian micro-expressions and perhaps this may have a bearing on international cultural misunderstanding/culture shock? What does David Matsumoto think of this hunch: I am sure I am gazing at faces in pretty much my set idiosyncratic way. I think I may be prioritizing my scan for my own “favored” emotions first and scan the face markers for those emotion first, missing the brief cues for the emotion that is really being displayed. In other words, my scan sequence is causing the problems. Furthermore, I wonder if psychotherapy can be shown to improve emotion recognition? If someone is suppressing grief, say, perhaps they may recognize sadness differently compared to points before and after psychotherapy?