A recent fascinating NPR article highlighted the research of Glenn Schellenberg of the University of Toronto, where he studies the psychology of music. The idea behind Schellenberg’s initial experiment was pretty straightforward: he simply wanted to play music for people and get them to rate how happy or sad that music made them feel. Through…
Read MoreResearch, Lies and More Research: The Myth of the Dead Giveaway
By now, many of us have realized that the average person, yes that’s you and me, is not very good at detecting deception BUT very proficient at implementing it. This fact has been proven time and time again by research that purports we are only as accurate as chance (50%) when it comes to correctly catching lies. Pacific Standard Magazine has reported on the…
Read MoreScience Interview with Humintell’s Director – Dr. Matsumoto Part 1
Humintell’s director Dr. David Matsumoto not only did the original research (along with other researchers including Dr. Ekman) for microexpression recognition training tools, but he continues his research into emotions and culture today. Below is an interview with Dr. Matsumoto about his current research on Triumph vs. Pride by science reporter Anna Meldolesi for her…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Mood ?
YouTube just launched a new feature that allows its viewers to discover and watch videos based on how they make them feel. YouTube’s new categorizing technique Coined “MoodWall” has about 40,000 videos which have been put into 20 emotion categories. CnnTech commented on the project that was initially undertaken to address the problem of search content being too…
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