From NPR’s “Hidden Brain” It may sound trite, but the Olympic Games truly are a chance to witness what unites us all as human beings: Our joy in triumph and our anguish in defeat. David Matsumoto believes this truism, but on an entirely different level. Matsumoto is a professor of psychology at San Francisco State…
Read MoreHappy or Not, Russians Rarely Smile in Public
In an article written by Marina Krakovsky and published in Psychology Today entitled“Global Psyche: National Poker Face”, Russian citizen’s facial expressions were compared with Americans. The article states that Russians, who seem very serious, rarely smile in public. The article suggests that this is not because they are pessimistic worry warts, but because their social…
Read MoreUnderstanding Another Person’s Emotion Signals Similarity, And May Make You Find Them More Attractive
By Dana Dovey for Medical Daily Ever felt instantly attracted to a stranger but you couldn’t figure out why? Though you might have brushed it off as fate or destiny, a recent study has a much more scientific explanation: We may subconsciously be more attracted to strangers when we feel that we can accurately interpret…
Read MoreFacial Expressions for those with Facial Paralysis
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6ZR5lJgTI[/youtube] By Kathleen Bogart, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oregon State University Facial expressions are important parts of how we communicate and how we develop impressions of the people around us. In “The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals,” Charles Darwin proposed that facial expressions evolved to quickly communicate emotional states important to social survival.…
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