Your Brain’s Disgust Response Is Revealing Than You Know

While you might not want to think much about something disgusting, our brain’s disgust response may be more revealing than you know. Previous blogs have emphasized both the existence of universal basic emotions and the evolutionary basis behind many of our expressions. A recent article in Science helps examine these same evolutionary roots with regard…

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Biases of Expectation

If you expect someone to be guilty, does that make them more likely to be? As discussed last week, many implicit biases complicate the process of determining guilt or detecting deception during an interview process. In a comprehensive trio of 2008 studies, a team of psychologists from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom found that…

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Nonverbal vs. Verbal Deception Detection?

Is deception detection easier when we have verbal cues? Could it even be harder? A lot of sensory input goes into our ability to detect deception, but it is hard to tease out the role of verbal and nonverbal cues. We train you to look for both, but a new study seeks to break down…

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Time to Learn Some People Reading!

Humintell is proud to announce that we have launched a new version of our reading people training package, with some exciting offers exclusively for you until the end of the month! While this new program will build off of the same people reading themes that Humintell has always specialized in, the new course, with three…

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