iPhone users: Blue Finger, Inc., a South Korean development company, has released a new iPhone app that reads facial expressions from photos (as well as in real time, if you purchase the full version.) The app scans the faces and gives you one of 12 answers: happiness, excitement, anger, joy, worry, loneliness, tiredness, sadness, “poker-face,”…
Read MoreA Helping Hand: Hand Gestures and the Mind
New research suggests that hand gestures may boost spatial visualization by helping a person keep track of an object in the mind as it is rotated. At least that is what an article in US News Health has reported. Researchers examined the relationship between hand gestures and spatial visualization in three experiments. One of the…
Read More“Crocodile Tears” Don’t Fool Us
Do you think its easy to fake remorse? New research out of the Centre for the Advancement of Psychology and Law at University of British Columbia and Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, suggests that it may not be as easy as you’d think. For the first time, researchers Leanne ten Brinke , Sarah MacDonald,…
Read MoreDrugs and their Effect on Emotion Recognition
Fact or Fiction: Drug abusers have difficulty recognizing universal emotions such as anger, disgust, and sadness? Well, according to an article in ScienceDaily , a recent study by a group of scientists from the University of Granada suggest that it is true. Maria Jose Fernandez-Serrano, the main author of the research, found that 70% of drug abusers…
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