A recent article by Popular Science reports on a new study from Psychology professor Ross Flom and colleagues that found babies are able to read each other’s emotional expressions as early as 5 months old. The study which was published in Infancy journal comes right after similar research published by Flom on infants’ ability to…
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By Guest Blogger Eric Goulard Goulard is Humintell’s French affiliate who focuses on nonverbal communication and body language. He offers online education and resources in these fields via his website. In this blog Goulard references the first ever televised presidential debate and offers some commentary on the impact of nonverbal communication. In 1960, the debate…
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According to the Mother Nature Network there may be a link between Lego facial expressions and children’s emotions. Since their inception, Lego figurines’ facial expressions have evolved to display more negative emotions. This has led some to believe that these negative emotions could have a negative impact on the children playing with them. Christoph Bartneck,…
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4GWAR, the nations counter terrorism, homeland security and new technologies blog recently did an article on Humintell’s Director, Dr. David Matsumoto and his speech at a Human Geography Conference outside of Washington D.C. The article’s focus was on the “geography” of the human and that role in deception detection. Human geography is a multi-discipline study…
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