Emotions

On a quest to find his missing daughter: You don’t need to speak Japanese in order to understand this man’s emotions. Our thoughts go out to those who have been affected by this tragedy. How can you help? Visit this informative Time Magazine Page. Dr. Matsumoto’s judo club, East Bay Judo Institute, is also helping…

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Expression of the Month Winner!

Humintell’s Expression of the Month contest winner is:   Lee! He wins a free MiX Professional key for his winning submission. FACS codes:  L2B + L5B +7B + 9D + 12D + T23B + 16B + 25 Dr. Matsumoto weighs in with his thoughts on this expression: “He has the expression of someone with a “devilish…

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Cooperation and Competition in Intercultural Interactions

Are team players more cooperative when they can relate to their teammates? New research conducted by Drs. David Matsumoto and Hyi Sung Hwang now relates the behavioral ability to cooperatively interact with people to cultural differences between the players. In this study, US born Americans played a modified Prisoner’s Dilemma game in same sex dyads…

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The Window to our Souls

Most of us have heard about the iphone emotion recognition app, which we previously blogged about, as well as new emotion recognition security tools such as the virtual border patrol. All these new applications beg the questions, are we going too far with technology and are we compromising our privacy? Now imagine sitting in traffic…

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