31 January, 2018

Microexpressions: What Exactly Are They?

by Humintell Admin
in Facial Expressions, Microexpressions, Nonverbal Behavior /
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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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24 January, 2018

Revisiting Nonverbal Behavior

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in Deception, Nonverbal Behavior /
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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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16 January, 2018

Nonverbal Clues to Deception

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in Deception, Lying, Nonverbal Behavior /
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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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8 January, 2018

Our Voice’s Emotions

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in Emotion, Facial Expressions, Nonverbal Behavior /
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Humintell tends to focus on nonverbal behavior and facial expressions, but our voices also convey a lot of subtle information. This should not be a surprise to many of you who intuitively see different emotions and attitudes in pre-vocal utterances such as sighs, grunts, or yells. In a 2015 study, a team of researchers sought…

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