Do you have emotional empathy for other people? This seems like a no-brainer but research is now suggesting that people who have had severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) have a loss of emotional empathy , which is the ability to recognize and understand the emotions of other people. Researchers from the University of New South…
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Market Watch has just released information about a new digital eye tracking marketing product developed by AOL and IPG Media Lab . The companies announced the results of a new study on the effectiveness and earned attention on AOL’s project units aka IAB “Portrait Units” versus traditional display advertising at the Cannes Lions International Advertising…
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Insects might have feelings according to an article in Wired Science. Honeybees especially are now being looked as pessimists. The ability to display and recognize emotions is a cognitive trait that has been limited, until now, to higher animals such as dogs, horses and humans. Newcastle researchers, Melissa Bateson and Jeri Wright wrote in…
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New research, conducted by Human Communication Research , suggests that sender demeanor may be the most influential source of variation in deception detection judgments. Sender Demeanor is the difference in the believability of a message sent by a “sender”, which is independent of the actual honesty of the message. In this study, published in Human…
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