Cool your jets! A new study published in The European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care suggests that having an episode of intense anger was associated with an 8.5 times greater risk of having a heart attack during the following 2 hours. The study looked at 313 people who were being treated in a hospital for a…
Read MorePain Really Is All In Your Head And Emotion Controls Intensity
In a recent post on NPR, John Hamilton explored how our brain controls our perception of pain. David Linden, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, claims that “our perception of pain is shaped by brain circuits that are constantly filtering the information coming from our sensory nerves”. For more, listen to the story via the…
Read MoreYour Dog Can Read Your Emotions
Previous research we’ve highlighted on our blog suggested that humans are quite good at reading their pet dog’s facial expressions. But what about the other way around? How good are dogs at reading their owners’ emotions? Up until now, scientific evidence and research in this realm was lacking, but a new study finds that dogs are…
Read MoreThe Funnel Approach to Questioning and Eliciting Information
Written for Tactics and Preparedness, Issue 15, January 2015 By Dr. David Matsumoto, Dr. Hyisung Hwang and Vincent Sandoval Broadly speaking, elicitation refers to procedures or techniques involving interacting with and communicating with others, formally or informally, that is designed to gather knowledge or inform. Eliciting information from anyone who is uncooperative is a difficult task. Elicitation can occur in many different contexts,…
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