Past Blog: Lying During an Interview?

The Gerson Lehrman Group, a consulting firm, recently posted a blog about deception during employment interviews. According to the article, studies have shown that around 49% of job applicants lie during the interview process, and about 40% of employees steal from their employers. Jim McGuffey, CPP, the author of this article, has 38 years of…

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James Flynn- Why Our IQ’s are Higher Than Our Grandparents’

James Flynn, moral philosopher, gives an interesting perspective on the IQ levels and Intelligence of past generations in comparison with today’s generation. In 1900, only 3% of Americans practiced professions that were deemed “cognitively demanding.”  Today, 35% of us do, and we have all learned to be flexible in the way that we think about…

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The New Face of Finance

Facial Recognition software is now being used to tell how people really feel about their money. This new feature is being implemented in New Zealand and has thousands of people taking part in the Bank of New Zealand’s online facial scans. The facial scan called EmotionScan is an online feature that links facial expressions to…

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Infants and Emotion

Recent research suggest that infants as young as 18 months can tell when someone is “faking” their feelings when their emotions and expressions don’t align with an event. New research from Concordia University, reported on by Medical Xpress  suggest that infants 18 months and older have the ability to detect whether a person’s emotions are…

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