Have you ever promised a child who just hurt themselves a Popsicle or lollipop if they would just calm down? Did it work? More often than not, you may have found that it did and the child seemed calmer. A new study entitled, Oral sucrose as an analgesic drug for procedural pain in newborn infants,…
Read MoreCan You Spot a Lie?
John Wills, a former Chicago Police Officer and retired FBI Special Agent, recently wrote an article for Officer.com entitled “Can You Spot a Lie?. In this article, he writes about his conversation with retired FBI Special Agent Mark Bouton (whom you can even follow on twitter), who has become “adept at recognizing certain indices of…
Read More“The Hidden Cost of Smiling”?
In a recent blog post on Psychology Today, Dr. Noam Spencer, a professor of psychology at Otterbein College wrote about “The Hidden Cost of Smiling.” He talks about Americans and how they are “over-socialized to smile, and argues that Americans are taught to smile at all situations, to the point where it has become an…
Read MoreIs a Trustworthy Face the Best Poker Face?
A study out of Wellesley University led by Dr. Erik Schlicht investigated “whether an opponent’s face influences players’ wagering decisions in a zero-sum game with hidden information”. In this case, the game they used in their study was Texas Hold’em Poker. Schlicht and his team asked participants to make “risky” choices while simultaneously being presented…
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