Several people have asked us to comment on a recently published and publicized study entitled “Body Cues, Not Facial Expressions, Discriminate Between Intense Positive and Negative Emotions” by Hillel Aviezer, et al. The Paradigm The paradigm used in Aviezer’s research involved judgments of emotion when viewing stimuli that combined different emotional reactions in different parts…
Read MoreEmotional Moments
Emotions are a big part of our daily lives. Each person reacts to their environment in different ways and displays emotions according to the situation. There are sad moments in life as well as joyous ones. Below are pictures of some emotional displays: The first photo is from the Associated Press and pictures an emotional Tom Sullivan who…
Read MoreCan You Compete Under Pressure?
The 2012 London Olympics are drawing to a close and we have witnessed many inspiring, emotional and phenomenal performances these past two weeks. We previously featured various blog posts about an athlete’s ability to control their emotions while competing. We picked the brains of two London Olympic Athletes, including Olympic Champion Kayla Harrison and Olympic…
Read MoreHumintell Research: Victory Stance, Universal Gesture for Triumph
The victory stance that many athletes take immediately after a win has been found to be a universal gesture for triumph which is the same across cultures. These new findings purport that triumph is a universal gesture seen in the “victory” stance of an athlete. The idea of triumph being a universal emotion had its beginnings in Dr.…
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