Written by Jessica Hamzelou for New Scientist Magazine Wide eyes and mouth agape – you might think a fearful face is easy to recognize. That doesn’t seem to be the case for people who repeatedly commit antisocial offences. For the first time, training offenders to better read facial expressions has reduced violent crime. The computer-based…
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Apes often make weird sounds when they’re tickled, and some researchers now say these pants and hoots truly are related to human laughter. That’s the conclusion of a new study in the journal Current Biology that analyzed the “tickle-induced vocalizations” of infant and juvenile apes as well as human infants.
What Facial Expressions Are Really Saying
Lot’s of research has shown that a look can speak volumes between two people. But how did facial expressions get started originally, and why? Why do they look they way they do? Why do people smile when they’re happy? Why do they wrinkle their nose and raise their upper lip when they’re disgusted? Why do they…
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Humintell is proud to be frequent contributors to the nation’s premier law enforcement publication, the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Since 1935, The FBI has provided information on current law enforcement issues and research in the field to the larger policing community through this publication. Today, the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin remains one of the most widely…
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