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Universal Olympian Triumph

The Olympics are also an incredible insight into the universality of emotional expressions. In addition to being an amazing showcase of emotions, as we discussed last week, the Olympics also demonstrate the unity of human emotions across cultures. Given that the Games bring athletes together from all over the world, they present a prime study…

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Microexpressions: 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…

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Revisiting 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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Nonverbal Clues to Deception

How crucial are nonverbal clues to detecting deception? A recent 2017 study argues that reading nonverbal behavior is a crucial component to discovering mistruth and understanding if another person is lying. In this research, Dr. Eric Novotny and a team of scholars respond to previous research that underplays the role of nonverbal clues in everyday…

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