by Susan Crespo for Washington News Wire Ohio State University researchers have located the single area of the brain that seems to be responsible for helping us categorize and label the facial expressions of those around us. The team monitored brain activity of 10 college students as each were shown over 1,000 pictures of people…
Read MoreWhat Facial Expressions Are Really Saying
Lot’s of research has shown that a look can speak volumes between two people. But how did facial expressions get started originally, and why? Why do they look they way they do? Why do people smile when they’re happy? Why do they wrinkle their nose and raise their upper lip when they’re disgusted? Why do they…
Read MoreAnger Is Expressed Universally Across All People
The anger face: brows pulled down, upper and lower eyelids pulled up, lips rolled in and tightened. No matter where you go in the world, the facial expression of anger is expressed universally across all people of all cultures. Anger is one of the seven basic emotions along with sadness, happiness, contempt, disgust, fear and surprise. The…
Read MoreDetecting Deception: Are You Being Lied to?
Written for Tactics and Preparedness, Issue 6, April 2014 By Dr. Hyi Sung Hwang and Dr. David Matsumoto Behavioral anomalies are verbal and nonverbal signs of cognitions and emotions that give additional clues to what an individual is thinking and feeling beyond the content of the words being spoken. We can improve our ability to…
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