The Olympics are also an incredible insight into the universality of emotional expressions. In addition to being an amazing showcase of emotions, as we discussed last week, the Olympics also demonstrate the unity of human emotions across cultures. Given that the Games bring athletes together from all over the world, they present a prime study…
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Can the Olympics teach us anything about reading people? Most of these blogs have been devoted to reading people’s emotions when they are being actively concealed, such as during efforts to detect deception. However, the Winter Olympics give us an opportunity to read people exhibiting unfiltered, raw emotions. With emotions as high as they are…
Read MoreThe Challenges of Cross Cultural Communication
You may be great about reading some people, but there are still a lot of people whose distinct outlook and culture may elude you. One of the most important parts of learning how to read people is accepting that this process varies considerably across different cultures, despite the presence of universal basic emotions. In a…
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Humintell tends to focus on nonverbal behavior and facial expressions, but our voices also convey a lot of subtle information. This should not be a surprise to many of you who intuitively see different emotions and attitudes in pre-vocal utterances such as sighs, grunts, or yells. In a 2015 study, a team of researchers sought…
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