Do humans have more than two dozen universal emotions? A recent article on LiveScience highlighted research that concluded “a vast part of the human emotional repertoire is universal, and that emotional expressions go far deeper than the six basic ones previously described by researchers.” Humintell Director, Psychologist Dr. Matsumoto says there is “no question in his mind” that…
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Many people rely on their intuition rather than their knowledge when trying to discern truth. This may seem like the opposite of what should happen, but new research finds that there are ways we can be tricked into thinking that something feels familiar, trustworthy and true. The Washington Post writes on why most people are…
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Science Magazine reports on a research that highlights the importance of the face and its signal value in evolutionary history. The Guenon monkey species tend to live in close proximity to each other, but it is important that they don’t interbreed as such offspring has been found to be infertile. From an evolutionary standpoint, this…
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