Manipulating Emotions – The Effects of Social Media

Forbes: Entrepreneur delves into what really motivates people in this day and age!  How can people, companies, and groups spur us into action? There are plenty of options: advertising, marketing, and of course the ever popular and influential social media.  It has been revealed long ago that influencing one’s emotions can in turn affect their…

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Reading Our Brain’s Emotional Code

   “We discovered that fine-grained patterns of neural activity within the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with emotional processing, act as a neural code which captures an individual’s subjective feeling,” purported Adam Anderson, associate professor of human development in Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology and senior author of the study, “Population coding…

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Genuine Sadness or Posed Grief? Gerard Baden-Clay

The story of murdered mother Allison Baden-Clay has gripped Australia for the past several months. Allison’s husband Gerard Baden-Clay was accused and convicted of killing his wife Allison at their home in the affluent western Brisbane suburb of Brookfield on April 19, 2012, and dumping her body on the banks of Kholo Creek at Anstead…

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Gestures & The Fist Bump

NPR reports on the Fist Bump as the new High-Five!  The fist bump became a big issue when President Obama used it in his 2008 campaign as a greeting to a restaurant employee.  As most of us know the fist bump has gained popular standings to signal a job well done, “I agree with you”, or “what’s…

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