Do humans have more than two dozen universal emotions? A recent article on LiveScience highlighted research that concluded “a vast part of the human emotional repertoire is universal, and that emotional expressions go far deeper than the six basic ones previously described by researchers.” Humintell Director, Psychologist Dr. Matsumoto says there is “no question in his mind” that…
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Science Magazine reports on a research that highlights the importance of the face and its signal value in evolutionary history. The Guenon monkey species tend to live in close proximity to each other, but it is important that they don’t interbreed as such offspring has been found to be infertile. From an evolutionary standpoint, this…
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The BBC Network is taking facial recognition marketing to a new level. They have employed the use of facial coding web cameras to gauge viewers’ emotional reactions to their network television shows. The initial study, reported on by Recombu.com, has been measuring 200 U.K. participants and will soon expand to international markets. Tracked programs include…
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