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.…
Read MoreIn New Age Of Interrogations, Police Focus On Building Rapport (NPR)
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with investigative journalist Robert Kolker, whose article in Wired explores the new police interrogation technique called rapport-building.
The Power of Silence: Nonverbal Communication
This presentation: “The Power of Silence: Nonverbal Communication” by Dr. David Matsumoto was recorded live before a studio audience on 3/30/16 at Cleveland State University. This series is funded in part by the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychology.