Health Central.com has enlightened us on new research that suggests bright lights, including the sun, are not as comforting and positively associated as many people might think. So, can bright lights make you more emotional? That’s the question researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Toronto, Scarborough set out to answer in a recent…
Read MoreYour Car May Soon Be Able to Tell When You Have Road Rage
The science fiction novels that many of us read as children are turning into science fact with our fast-paced technologically advancing world. A team of research scientists from the Swiss company EPFL has developed a system that allows cars to detect their driver’s emotional states. According to the company’s News Mediacom page, their aim is…
Read MoreFrozen Emotions
A new study, commented on by The New York Times, lends even more evidence to the theory that regular botox injections can help treat depression. Last year, we blogged about a study by Dr. Eric Finzi that suggested that onabotulinumtoxinA (commonly referred to as “Botox”) injected into the corrugator and procerus muscles (the frown muscles…
Read More21 Facial Expressions and Their Meanings in Psychology
It’s not new, news that humans have a great many different facial expressions. In fact, the face is the most complex nonverbal signal system in the body and it’s used to express many different kinds of mental states including Cognitive processes, concentration, confusion Facial emblems Signs of physical effort Signs of physiological states, fatigue, tiredness…
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