Young Children Judge Trustworthiness & Competence Based on Your Face

Research led by led by psychological scientist Emily Cogsdill of Harvard University, reported by The Association for Psychological Sciences  shows that judging others based on their physical features begins at a very early age. As many of us know and as past research has shown, adults regularly use faces to make judgments about the character…

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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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Analyzing Nonverbal Behaviors and Expressions of Emotion

In the interview below by DeCodeur du Non-Verbal on analyzing nonverbal behaviors, Dr. Matsumoto was asked by French body language consultant Romain Collignon, about how he got started in analyzing nonverbal behaviors and expressions of emotion.  See Dr. Matsumoto’s response below. “As an undergraduate, I was initially interested in how children (ages 3-5) could understand…

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Translating Nonverbals – CLE for Attorneys

Dr. Matsumoto recently gave a CLE workshop to the New Hampshire District Court. He is an expert in nonverbal behavior and reading people’s emotions in high-stakes situations. Being able to read nonverbal communication signs is extremely important in many professions, but especially for attorneys.  Dr. Matsumoto and Humintell now specializes in teaching nonverbal communication techniques…

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