Italian Technology: Emotional Androids?

KeyC  TV an affiliate of Fox television has reported on the newest type of “humaniod”, an Italian robot that mimics the muscle movements that are involved in human facial expressions. A team of Italian engineers have created the FACE an android that uses 32 motors to replicate facial expressions of emotion such as disgust, fear…

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Maureen O’Sullivan’s Wizards Project Update

The Wizards Project was a research project conducted by Drs. Paul Ekman and Maureen O’Sulllivan, that studied the ability of people to detect lies. This research showed that for the average person, being able to detect deception is not an easy task.  Most people can detect deceit only about 50% of the time, which is the statistical equivalent of…

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Body Language Revealed: Part 2

By guest blogger Eric Goulard Eric Goulard is a nonverbal and body language expert as well as Humintell’s France affiliate.  He offers online education and resources in the field of non-verbal communication through his website Non-Verbal.info.  Below is the 2nd part to his insightful comments on gestures and body language.  Political Communication Photograph of Russian Vladimir Putin…

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Olympic Update

About a month ago, we featured a series of blog posts featuring Olympic Athletes and how they manage their emotions in and out of competition. Two athletes we featured were Marti Malloy and Kayla Harrison, both of whom were first time Olympians in the sport of Judo. Marti competed on Monday July 30 and won…

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