Translating Nonverbals – CLE for Attorneys

Dr. Matsumoto recently gave a CLE workshop to the New Hampshire District Court. He is an expert in nonverbal behavior and reading people’s emotions in high-stakes situations. Being able to read nonverbal communication signs is extremely important in many professions, but especially for attorneys.  Dr. Matsumoto and Humintell now specializes in teaching nonverbal communication techniques…

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Comedic Relief

Some of you may have already seen the humorous set of images above online. While some think that these expressions (the human’s, not the dog’s) are ones of shame, we’d like to suggest that they are expressions of control, where a person is trying to control their emotions and hide how they are truly feeling. Dr.…

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Society Teaches us that Women are Untrustworthy?

    Role Reboot: Culture & Politics reports on how society is teaching our kids that women lie. So how exactly are we teaching children that women lie and can’t be trusted to be as competent or truthful as men? The article comments that lessons about women’s untrustworthiness are in our words, pictures, art, and memory. …

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Trait Psychology- Dr. David Matsumoto

In the video below Dr. Matsumoto explains the structure of traits- dispositions that we have to act or behave in a certain way. Studies that involve analyzing traits, especially across cultures, have come to find that there seems to be a universal structure of traits.  That is, people all around the world have basic traits…

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