Hot Spot The Liar

The New York Times recently published an short article about people’s ability on recognize and interpret Hot Spots.  Hot Spots are inconsistencies between what people say and what their non-verbals are displaying. An example of a hot spot would be, if you ask a person how they like your dress and they say “I love…

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Bright Lights & Emotion

Health Central.com has enlightened us on new research that suggests bright lights, including the sun, are not as comforting and positively associated as many people might think. So, can bright lights make you more emotional? That’s the question researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Toronto, Scarborough set out to answer in a recent…

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The Truth Lies in Our Eyes?

A new device is being held to detect deception by accurately reading eye behavior.  Broadway World.com comments on this non-invasive lie detection method called EyeDetect. Scientists at Utah based company Conversus, which invented the EyeDetect and the computerized polygraph, claim that their device can detect whether a person is being honest or is lying through…

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Your Car May Soon Be Able to Tell When You Have Road Rage

The science fiction novels that many of us read as children are turning into science fact with our fast-paced technologically advancing world. A team of research scientists from the Swiss company EPFL  has developed a system that allows cars to detect their driver’s emotional states.  According to the company’s News Mediacom page, their aim is…

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