People with borderline personality disorders, better known as BPD, show a deficiency in emotion regulation skills. That might not sound like news but imagine getting so frustrated you wanted to smash your computer or scream really loud. If that did not suffice, would you hurt yourself or would you just let out a sigh of…
Read MoreAnalytical Interviewing
When law enforcement use microexpressions as an interviewing/interrogation technique it is called “Analytical Interviewing”. United States police officers, TSA workers, and the FBI have all been using microexpressions to detect deception for quite some time. Science has come to distinguish this from merely reading body language and gestures. Although, those types of techniques are helpful…
Read MoreNegative Emotion Enhances Memory?
Negative emotions actually enhance a person’s memory. Who would have thought that it was all the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elms street movies that we watched after school that would make us the geniuses we are today? Well, it turns out it just might be according to an article in The Behavioral Medicine…
Read MoreFace of the Future!
IBTimes-New York has just reported that Facebook is just about to introduce its new mood recognition app. Face.com a face detection and recognition service has just introduced Facebook to its new facial recognition technology. They have announced the release of their new mood recognition API (for those of you who are not techies, application programming…
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