New research has shown that babies brains are just as specialized as adult brains in respect to emotion recognition. According to EurekAlert, this study (entitled Early Specialization for Voice and Emotion Processing in the Infant Brain and published in Current Biology) purports that three-to-seven month infants have greater activation in the temporal lobe of the…
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Do you have emotional empathy for other people? This seems like a no-brainer but research is now suggesting that people who have had severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) have a loss of emotional empathy , which is the ability to recognize and understand the emotions of other people. Researchers from the University of New South…
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Who’s the best at hiding their emotions? Well, take a look at the video below, which delineates the most popular society at masking their emotions. It is not Brits as one might suggest. Dr. David Matsumoto, microexpression expert, comments on why this might be so prevalent in Japanese society. He suggests that because it is…
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When people think of psychopaths they think one in a million, perhaps that’s just me. It turns out that the infrequencies of psychopaths in the world is just a myth. According to, the Sign of the Times: Psychopathy website this disorder is more prevalent than one might have thought or perhaps wants to believe. The…
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