Confessing Half the Truth is Worse than a Full Confession

A recent study purports that people who fully confessed after lying when given the opportunity to come clean, felt better than those who partially confessed. The study which was published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology was comprised of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Ben-Gurion University of…

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Analyzing Nonverbal Behaviors and Expressions of Emotion

In the interview below by DeCodeur du Non-Verbal on analyzing nonverbal behaviors, Dr. Matsumoto was asked by French body language consultant Romain Collignon, about how he got started in analyzing nonverbal behaviors and expressions of emotion.  See Dr. Matsumoto’s response below. “As an undergraduate, I was initially interested in how children (ages 3-5) could understand…

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Translating Nonverbals – CLE for Attorneys

Dr. Matsumoto recently gave a CLE workshop to the New Hampshire District Court. He is an expert in nonverbal behavior and reading people’s emotions in high-stakes situations. Being able to read nonverbal communication signs is extremely important in many professions, but especially for attorneys.  Dr. Matsumoto and Humintell now specializes in teaching nonverbal communication techniques…

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Society Teaches us that Women are Untrustworthy?

    Role Reboot: Culture & Politics reports on how society is teaching our kids that women lie. So how exactly are we teaching children that women lie and can’t be trusted to be as competent or truthful as men? The article comments that lessons about women’s untrustworthiness are in our words, pictures, art, and memory. …

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