Behavioral Science & Energy

Alex Laskey Energy Resource specialist and President and Founder of OPower has some interesting insight into human nature and energy consumption. Laskey shows how a quirk of human behavior can make us all better, wiser energy users, with lower energy bills. He helps power companies to help their customers cut down — using data analysis,…

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Conscious Laughter

How does YOUR brain register laughter ? It’s important to note, not all laughter is perceived as good.  There is mocking laughter, ticklish laughter, which can be good or bad and joyful laughter.  So, how do we know which is which without a visual context? Researchers recently delved into this question and came to find…

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Gestures and Culture

Gestures are one of the first things to come to mind that can cause a major cultural faux pas.  People from every culture have been guilty of unintentionally offending people from other cultures through the use of inappropriate gestures. Huffington Post reports on the dos and don’t in cultural gesturing. For instance in America we…

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Dr. Matsumoto on Lying, Deception and Microexpressions

What is the difference between deception and lying? How young do children start to lie? What are microexpressions and were they portrayed accurately in the hit TV show Lie to Me? Humintell’s French affiliate Othello  has taken some time to interview Dr. Matsumoto on these topics and more. You can view Part 1 of the…

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