A recent LiveScience article highlighted research that suggests that giving strangers a slight smile can make people feel more connected to one another. At the annual meeting of Society for the Study of Motivation, researchers from Purdue University in Indiana suggested that people who have been acknowledged by a stranger feel more connected to others immediately after the…
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Why is it that there always seems to be that one person who seems to be happy no matter what is happening around them? It can be refreshing, but at times it can also be down right annoying. Why can some people see the silver lining 95% of the time? According to Forbes new research…
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BBC has reported on the Pentagon’s growing interest in the neurobiology of political violence, a relatively new field that combines neuroscience with more traditional social science-based approaches to understanding human behavior. One program by Darpa is working on a project, Narrative Networks, that tries to “understand how narratives influence human thoughts and behavior, then apply…
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There is a growing interest in the fields of nonverbal communication and emotion recognition, specifically microexpressions. People interested in the field of deception detection and facial expressions of emotion as well as nonverbal communication skills and are asking how do I apply these types of techniques in the real world? What types of professions is…
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