Recognizing facial expressions of emotion is no small task. As simple as it may sound, many people find it difficult to understand how someone is really responding to their words or actions based upon facial expressions that sometimes only last a fraction of a second. HindustanTimes reports on a study conducted by Dr. Lesley Fellows…
Read MoreThe Language of Culture
Culture is central to human success? Well, that is exactly what author and evolutionary biologist Dr. Mark Pagel suggests in his new book Wired for Culture. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the thesis of Dr. Pagel’s book is that human being’s lives became dominated by culture, they could have adopted habits that did…
Read MoreCaught in the “Net”
Recently we blogged about the advertising of the future now new research has upped the ante with computers that can catch you telling lies. Has it really happened already? Past research has found that the average person can only delineate a lie from the truth about 50% of the time. It has also shown that…
Read MoreWealth & Deception Go Hand in Hand?
The upper class is more likely to believe that greed is good? Well that is what Futurity.org is reporting. A UC Berkeley study, published in the journal The Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, has revealed that wealthier people were more likely to lie and cheat when gambling or negotiating. They were also found…
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