The FBI’s March 2014 Bulletin featured important interviewing techniques and detailed information on reading people. Drs. David Matsumoto, Humintell’s Director, and Hyisung Hwang as well as former FBI Special Agent Lisa Skinner commented on the scientific evidence behind behavioral anomalies that they have found through years of research and training. Many law enforcement professionals understand and…
Read MoreWhy the Emotion of Anger may be a Good Thing
What would the world be like if anger never existed? It may not be quite what you’d expect. To find out why humans need the emotion of anger, HuffPost Science’s Jacqueline Howard reached out to evolutionary psychologist Dr. Leda Cosmides who claims that the same neuro networks that drive anger also help us fine tune cooperative…
Read MoreLyrical Emotion
For most people, listening to music often times triggers strong emotional reactions, whether positive or negative. But what if this weren’t the case for everyone? A recent study featured in Science World Report and conducted by researchers at the University of Barcelona and Catalonia’s Bellvitge Institute of Biological Investigation, set out to investigate why some people just can’t…
Read MorePast Blog: Facial Expressions not Universal? The study and its flaws…
There have been several recent news articles that suggest facial expressions of emotion are not universal. In a past blog, Dr. Matsumoto sites his retort to a study entitled Cultural Confusions Show Facial Expressions Are Not Universal where researcher Rachael Jack and her colleagues challenged 100s of studies documenting the universality of facial expressions. The conclusions of this…
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