12 September, 2017

Smelling Feelings?

by Humintell Admin
in Emotion, Facial Expressions, Science /
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If something smells awful, it’s because it’s disgusting, right? Maybe, but the truth is a little bit more complicated. A recent study found that our immediate olfactory reactions to stimuli are heavily influenced by the emotional reactions of other people. This suggests that when we smell something bad, we may be picking up on people’s…

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6 September, 2017

Trying to Buy Happiness

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Could happiness be a purchasable commodity like any other? It has long been a cliché that we cannot simply buy happiness, but is this really true? In fact, several recent studies have begun to find striking correlations between wealth and happiness, but it isn’t that simple. For example, your purchased happiness seems to depend on…

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29 August, 2017

How to Tell if Someone Is Lying to You

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in Deception, Facial Expressions, Lying, Microexpressions /
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How can we learn how to spot deception? It is a sad truth that lying is incredibly pervasive in our interactions with fellow humans. While people lie for a multitude of reasons, we are also quite bad at lie detection, creating a pretty bleak predicament for those of us who value honesty. In a recent…

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22 August, 2017

Recognizing Friend from Foe

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Why does your face look so different from mine? This blog has spent a great deal of time talking about various methods of facial recognition, as well as its relationship to emotional recognition. An important part of this question rests in the vast diversity of human faces that we come into contact with. We need…

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