“What Your Best Friend Sees That I Don’t” is an article published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin that discusses the relevance of closeness of individuals in enhancing their ability to decode emotional facial expressions. Many people believe that the idea that familiarity will lead to better and more effective emotional communication. However, research…
Read MoreMind What You Do?
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no its Superman! No matter what age, even junior high kids know this phrase and most people revere Superman as a hero. What about modern day heroes? Some people may shout out “Madonna” or “Jackie Chan” but these are celebrities not heroes. Today the meaning of hero has become…
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In an article on Time Healthlands webpage, entitled “Why we think Women are More Trustworthy than Men” the depth and believability of lies are put to the test. The study called “Jo are you Lying to Me? Temporal cues for Deception” was conducted by Marilyn Boltz and her colleagues investigated whether variations in speech rate…
Read MoreFacebook’s Facial Recognition Technology
The popular social networking site, Facebook, is unveiling new facial recognition technology that they are integrating with Facebook Photos. They announced this coincidentally the same day that their founder, Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. This feature, known as Tag Suggestions, will group faces together when uploading photos, and automatically suggest…
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