Can the Olympics teach us anything about reading people? Most of these blogs have been devoted to reading people’s emotions when they are being actively concealed, such as during efforts to detect deception. However, the Winter Olympics give us an opportunity to read people exhibiting unfiltered, raw emotions. With emotions as high as they are…
Read MoreThe Challenges of Cross Cultural Communication
You may be great about reading some people, but there are still a lot of people whose distinct outlook and culture may elude you. One of the most important parts of learning how to read people is accepting that this process varies considerably across different cultures, despite the presence of universal basic emotions. In a…
Read MoreMicroexpressions: What Exactly Are They?
What exactly are microexpressions? While we certainly know how important microexpressions are in reading other people, there are still a great deal of outstanding questions. One of these concerns the very nature of a microexpression: how long do they last? This is an important question in better understanding to what extent they are categorically different…
Read MoreRevisiting Nonverbal Behavior
We have shown that nonverbal behavior is crucial to detecting deception, but it seems that our previous discussions have been a little insufficient. Certainly this has been a major discussion in this blog, but we have focused only on individual behaviors, like eye contact or gestures, in order to explain how important nonverbal behavior is.…
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