Do you tell the truth, especially when money is involved? Wall Street firms are not taking any chances. According to a Consumer Affairs report and The Wall Street Journal, there is a growing need for the employment of professional lie detectors in the business world. In the articles entitled “Wary Investors Turn to Lie Detectors”…
Read MorePolitics: It’s All in the Face
Voters make judgments about politicians’ competence based on their facial appearance. The article, “On the Face of It” posted on the ScienceDaily website, showed that research conducted by Christopher Olivola (University College London in the UK) and Alexander Todorov (Princeton University) suggests that these appearance based judgments predict voting decisions and election outcomes. Voter’s choices…
Read MoreFacebook’s Facial Recognition Technology
The popular social networking site, Facebook, is unveiling new facial recognition technology that they are integrating with Facebook Photos. They announced this coincidentally the same day that their founder, Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. This feature, known as Tag Suggestions, will group faces together when uploading photos, and automatically suggest…
Read MoreEmotions in Gift Giving
In light of this holiday season, the University of Hertfordshire has conducted a study on gift giving. The focus of this study was determining whether or not gift givers could tell whether or not a recipient liked a present just by looking at their facial expressions and nonverbal behavior. Dr. Karen Pine, a Professor of…
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