October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and while this topic may be an uncomfortable one, understanding domestic violence and how to detect and prevent it can save lives. One way of achieving this is to better train law enforcement to identify signs of aggression and violence. This involves significant people reading and emotional detection skills,…
Read MoreSpecial Announcement from Humintell!
We are really excited to let you know about the improvements we’ve made to our best selling MiX Original Microexpression Training Course! Recently we obtained feedback from many of you who gave us amazing and wonderful tips on how we can improve our MiX Original. We took that feedback to heart and we’ve made a number of…
Read MoreDisgust: Dissecting the Facial Expression
A few weeks ago, we posted an article about the hapless kombucha drinker whose disgust facial expressions went viral. This week, we get the benefit of Humintell’s own Dr. David Matsumoto’s insight into the details of her expressions. After trying kombucha, the video’s subject, Brittany Tomlinson, cycles through a rapid sequence of vivid facial expressions,…
Read MoreA Fear Response Can Have Some Unexpected Benefits
Most of us would just as soon not be afraid, but our natural fear response can have some unexpected benefits. This point is made salient by recent scientific efforts to program fear responses into artificial intelligence. While this might seem like an odd thing to do, programmers saw this as a helpful component to teaching…
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