It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no its Superman! No matter what age, even junior high kids know this phrase and most people revere Superman as a hero. What about modern day heroes? Some people may shout out “Madonna” or “Jackie Chan” but these are celebrities not heroes. Today the meaning of hero has become…
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In an article on Time Healthlands webpage, entitled “Why we think Women are More Trustworthy than Men” the depth and believability of lies are put to the test. The study called “Jo are you Lying to Me? Temporal cues for Deception” was conducted by Marilyn Boltz and her colleagues investigated whether variations in speech rate…
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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Two high school juniors from Oregon have won $100,000 in the 2010 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. Disabilityscoop website reported commented on the students’, Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez, computer analysis program that helps distinguish among five emotions from the recording of the human voice. Their project “The Recognition of Emotion in Human Speech”…
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