We all now know (especially if you read our blog frequently) that we lie everyday. Most of our lies are white lies and harmless enough or are they? According to Dennis Merritt Jones, a Huffington Post author, keynote speaker and spiritual mentor, some of those white lies are harmful and holding us prison. In his…
Read MoreCharles Darwin and Emotions
As The Irondequoit Post reports, nearly 150 years ago Charles Darwin used photographs to study how humans use their face to show emotions. Today researchers at Cambridge University use the power of the internet, videos and the technology of the 21st century to update Charles Darwin’s experiments. They believe the results could help them develop…
Read MoreEmotion Quotient
Do you know your emotional quotient? Greater Kashmir reports that emotion reveals a person in public through a wide range of physical changes and facial expressions. It is also very difficult to hide your emotions especially microexpressions that flash on and off the face in a matter of seconds. Emotions and moods are essential to…
Read MoreThe Language of Language
What do people unconsciously communicate through things such as intonation, accent and phrasing? And is it really possible to detect a lie? Well, that is exactly what computer science professor and expert in spoken language, Julia Hirschberg, is setting out to examine. Things to take into consideration, according to Hirschberg, “How do people convey that…
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