Can You Beat the Odds?

     Do you think you have an addictive personality?  No what about when it comes to games of chance are you fooled by the odds in your head? New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS reports that an area of the brain thought to be important for emotion may be…

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Your Car May Soon Be Able to Tell When You Have Road Rage

The science fiction novels that many of us read as children are turning into science fact with our fast-paced technologically advancing world. A team of research scientists from the Swiss company EPFL  has developed a system that allows cars to detect their driver’s emotional states.  According to the company’s News Mediacom page, their aim is…

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Taste that Expression

We are all familiar with the notion that our facial muscles relax and contract with the emotions that we display on it, which are more often than not involuntary, depending on how we feel.  Researchers in Tokyo have identified a similar link between taste and its involuntary display of certain facial expressions based on the…

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Separating the Liars from the Truth Tellers

People tend to measure dishonesty by a person’s physical tells such as fidgeting, breathing rate, etc. Often times these tells coupled with the baseline of the individual and intuition leads us to be correct in our analysis when it is someone we know well.  However, these techniques including measuring blood pressure and pulse as in…

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