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Mapping Emotions in the Body

Feelings are often associated with physical reactions: terror can send chills down your spine, and love can leave you weak in the knees. A recent study has linked specific emotions to physical sensations. Researchers tested emotional responses in hundreds of subjects and then created maps identifying locations in the body where emotions cause physical changes.…

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The Power of Nonverbal Behavior in Election Outcomes

“A politician is someone who can tell you to go to hell in a way that makes you look forward to the trip.” Along my travels around this country and around the world I came along the quote above and it has always stuck in my mind. Now with the crazy 2016 presidential election winding…

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Expressions of Pride: Instinctive and Useful

Why do we feel pride? Is pride even something to be avoided? This is a difficult question to answer, and Humintell congratulates Dr. Jessica Tracy for presenting a novel account of the emotion of pride in her acclaimed Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success. In this book, Dr. Tracy…

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Facial Recognition and Understanding Emotional Expressions

When you recognize a friend’s face, how do you know? Do you make a careful study of their nose and cheekbones? Are you thrown off if they don’t wear the usual expression? The vast majority of people probably scoffed at those questions. Facial recognition isn’t a matter of careful study, but instead it is an…

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