FBI Bulletin, Reading People: Behavioral Anomalies and Investigative Interviewing- 2014

The FBI’s March 2014 Bulletin featured important interviewing techniques and detailed information on reading people.  Drs. David Matsumoto, Humintell’s Director, and Hyisung Hwang as well as former FBI Special Agent Lisa Skinner commented on the scientific evidence behind behavioral anomalies that they have found through years of research and training. Many law enforcement professionals understand and…

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Subconscious Lie Detector

A new study reported on by LiveScience suggests an alternative interpretation to the well-established fact that humans are terrible at correctly determining when they are being deceived. Previous studies have shown that humans are no better than chance at detecting deception; however, this study suggests that the subconscious mind may be better at detecting deceit…

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Why the Emotion of Anger may be a Good Thing

What would the world be like if anger never existed? It may not be quite what you’d expect. To find out why humans need the emotion of anger, HuffPost Science’s Jacqueline Howard reached out to evolutionary psychologist Dr. Leda Cosmides who claims that the same neuro networks that drive anger also help us fine tune cooperative…

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Lyrical Emotion

For most people, listening to music often times triggers strong emotional reactions, whether positive or negative.  But what if this weren’t the case for everyone? A recent study featured in Science World Report  and conducted by researchers at the University of Barcelona and Catalonia’s Bellvitge Institute of Biological Investigation, set out to investigate why some people just can’t…

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