Giving and receiving Christmas gifts can be a stressful nightmare but how can you tell if someone really liked their gift? In a survey of 2,000 Brits, 65% of people confessed to pretending to like a gift to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. The graphic above shows the body language signals to look for to see…
Read MoreIt Pays to be able to Read Emotions, Literally.
A recent study out of Germany suggests that one’s ability to read emotions in others may have a direct correlation to how much you earn. In a study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, researchers looked at emotion recognition ability and tested and measured it along with other interpersonal skills such as how socially…
Read MoreBabies, Memory, and Positive Emotion
Of the many new experiences that infants have each day, which ones will they remember? A new study entitled “The effects of exposure to dynamic expressions of affect on 5-month-olds’ memory” published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development suggests that infants are more likely to remember a unique geometric shape whenever a positive emotion…
Read MoreUsing and Understanding Nonverbal Communication
Originally published on Psychology Today by Jeff Thompson, a Ph.D. candidate researching nonverbal communication and mediation at Griffith University Law School. As someone currently researching nonverbal communication, I have happily (yes- happily!) read many books, journal articles, magazine articles, and blog postings in regards to this broad subject. The new book by David Matsumoto, Mark…
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