Can the emotion of disgust help us stay healthy? Recent articles from Metro.com (uk) and SF Gate suggests that it very well can. It is scientifically proven that disgust is one of the seven basic universal facial expressions of emotion, meaning it is expressed in the same manner, on the face, across cultures. Metro reports…
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Did you know that objects can grab properties from nearby objects? This is referred to as illusory conjunction. Well, according to Scientific American this is true not just of objects, but of social beings such as human, more specifically their faces. They report that researchers at Arizona State have documented that male faces are more…
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LP Magazinehas reported on the misconceptions between eye movement and deception detection. They refer to a seminar by Humintell’s director Dr. Matsumoto at the Certified Forensic Interviewer Elite Training Day last November. The seminar focused on the difficulty in establishing deception or truth and the flaws most people commit when trying to do so. After…
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Dr. Matsumoto, director of Humintell and renowned psychologist has been appropriated by the Air Force Research Laboratory (who is also funding this endeavor) to find universal markers for deception. Dr. Matsumoto, a current Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University and co-creator of the original microexpression training tool, has been researching human emotions and nonverbal…
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