The Face is Special: The Seven Universal Emotions Those of you who have been following us (thank you!) know that faces do many things, and one very special thing that faces do is express emotion. Over half a century of scientific research has documented that seven facial expressions of emotion are universally expressed and recognized, all around the world, regardless of…
Read MoreAddressing Arguments Against Facial Expressions of Emotion
Within the past few months, many people have reached out to Humintell and asked us to comment on recent research regarding arguments against facial expressions of emotion. After a lot of deliberation, Director Dr. David Matsumoto addresses those issues in the video above. First and foremost, I’d like to express my deep and sincere respect…
Read MoreRapport in Investigative Interviews
Humintell Director Dr. David Matsumoto recently conducted a webinar on “Understanding Rapport and its Possible Components” for the International Association of Interviewers (IAI). Please enjoy this recording of the recent webinar as well as the outline he wrote that preceded it. Anyone and everyone who expounds an ethical, non-confrontational, empirically-based approach to interviewing acknowledges…
Read MoreBody Language: Validated and Non-Validated Indicators
Hey everybody, it’s David Matsumoto from Humintell. I wanted to thank everybody for the tremendous response that we have received about our last 2 videos. One was on the introduction to what is body language and the other one was about whether you can tell the difference between fake and genuine emotions. One of the…
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