From Group-Level Science to the Individual in Front of Us Introduction Something has been bugging me for decades. I have spent most of my professional life trying to understand people scientifically. Along the way, behavioral science has given us an enormous amount of valuable knowledge about human behavior. We know a great deal about…
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If you’re a dog owner, you may have had the feeling that your dog knows exactly how you’re feeling. A smile might bring an enthusiastic tail wag, while a frustrated expression can be met with a noticeably different response. But how much information can dogs actually gather just by looking at our faces? New research…
Read MoreHow the Infant Brain Tracks Their Mother’s Voice
A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience caught my attention because it touches on a question that has fascinated me for more than four decades: How can infants understand their mothers and caregivers long before they understand language? This question has been with me since my undergraduate days at the University of Michigan.…
Read MoreMaster the Science of Nonverbal Behavior
What if everything you thought you knew about emotions was only half the story? In this opening episode of the Nonverbal ACEs Masters Series, Dr. David Matsumoto — one of the world’s foremost authorities on emotion science, cross-cultural psychology, and the universality of facial expressions — challenges practitioners to go deeper than conventional training…
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