Sochi Winter Olympic Emotions

A great photo to analyze nonverbals. What does this photo say to you? Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu (and his coach’s) reaction to his world record setting figure skating short program score at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

Confessing Half the Truth is Worse than a Full Confession

A recent study purports that people who fully confessed after lying when given the opportunity to come clean, felt better than those who partially confessed. The study which was published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology was comprised of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Ben-Gurion University of…

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Taste that Expression

We are all familiar with the notion that our facial muscles relax and contract with the emotions that we display on it, which are more often than not involuntary, depending on how we feel.  Researchers in Tokyo have identified a similar link between taste and its involuntary display of certain facial expressions based on the…

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Still Face Experiment

Take a look at the videos below where Dr.  Edward Tonnick Ph.D from Harvard, studied infants, their communication abilities and how they read emotions.  A baby’s brain begins to learn about and organize the world around them through emotional connections. studied infants and their communication abilities as well as how they Read Emotions.  Through emotional…

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