Have you ever promised a child who just hurt themselves a Popsicle or lollipop if they would just calm down? Did it work? More often than not, you may have found that it did and the child seemed calmer. A new study entitled, Oral sucrose as an analgesic drug for procedural pain in newborn infants,…
Read More“The Hidden Cost of Smiling”?
In a recent blog post on Psychology Today, Dr. Noam Spencer, a professor of psychology at Otterbein College wrote about “The Hidden Cost of Smiling.” He talks about Americans and how they are “over-socialized to smile, and argues that Americans are taught to smile at all situations, to the point where it has become an…
Read MoreDr. Matsumoto’s Research Images!
Humintell is excited to announce the release of Dr. David Matsumoto’s images, which can be used by researchers for various studies. Once you purchase the image set, you will receive instructions on how to download them from our training website. Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion (JACFEE) – 56 color photos, each exemplifying one…
Read MoreFaces to Fear or Trust?
In a previous blog post, we commented on research out of Princeton University that attempted to determine the face of an individual that seemed “trustworthy”. In the same study, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University Alexander Todorov and research specialist Nikolaas Oosterhof attempted to search for a way to define the…
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