ScienceDaily reports on another way people avoid information that challenges their beliefs. The 2008 study found that: Partisan participants reacted strongly to ads featuring their favored candidate, but barely responded to ads featuring the rival candidate. In comparison, people who didn’t favor one candidate over the other showed similar physiological response patterns and intensity…
Read MoreHow to Tell a Lie with the Naked Eye
Humintell Director Dr. David Matsumoto appeared on the ABC 7 Evening News. He provided insight on how he detects microexpressions and inconsistencies between verbal and nonverbal statements to detect deception. Take a look at the video below in case you missed it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zagJayUYqqY[/youtube]
Emotions & Biology
The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) set out to answer the question, how are emotions generated in the brain? They are using mice as a model to map the emotional circuitry within the neural network of the brain in an effort to study how activity in these areas elicit emotions. Science 2.0 reports on this interesting research project. Surprisingly, mice have a very similar brain anatomy to humans;…
Read MoreScience Interview with Humintell’s Director – Dr. Matsumoto Part 2
Below is the continuation of the interview with Dr. Matsumoto about his current research on Triumph vs. Pride by science reporter, Anna Meldolesi, for her Italian Newspaper, Il Corriere della sera: Q2: What about defeat behavior in athletes and primates? Dr. Matsumoto: Our papers show the behaviors of the defeated to include head down, arms brought to the…
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