What drives Olympic athletes’ emotions? SF State psychologist and Humintell Director David Matsumoto answer this question explains the science behind an athlete’s “victory stance” in the video below. For more on Emotions, Sports and Critical Thinking, view this past blog post.
Olympic Victory and Defeat, Frame by Frame
From NPR’s “Hidden Brain” It may sound trite, but the Olympic Games truly are a chance to witness what unites us all as human beings: Our joy in triumph and our anguish in defeat. David Matsumoto believes this truism, but on an entirely different level. Matsumoto is a professor of psychology at San Francisco State…
Read MoreFacial Expressions for those with Facial Paralysis
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6ZR5lJgTI[/youtube] By Kathleen Bogart, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oregon State University Facial expressions are important parts of how we communicate and how we develop impressions of the people around us. In “The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals,” Charles Darwin proposed that facial expressions evolved to quickly communicate emotional states important to social survival.…
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