Dr. Matsumoto Podcast Interview Part 2

Last week, we began discussing Dr. David Matsumoto’s podcast interview, but we weren’t able to get to all of it. So, now time to discuss the second half! This time around, Dr. Matsumoto expounded on topics including the connection between deception and microexpressions, the role of gestures in communication, education, and artificial intelligence. One of…

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Tactical Social Influence Supplemental Material

Download the Persuasion and Influence Catalog Here Additional Class Handouts Facial Expression Analysis Evaluating Truthfulness and Detecting Deception Subjective Experience and the Expression of Emotion in Humans The Socratic Questioning Technique  Functions of Emotions People use less information than they think to make up their minds Socratic Questioning: Changing minds or Guiding discovery? Supplemental Readings…

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Reading People Depends on Identifying Body Language

While we have been focusing on microexpressions, reading people often depends on identifying their body language as well. Humintell’s Dr. David Matsumoto has done exciting work on the role of body language in human communication and the extent to which similar patterns span cultures. As we’ve noted, it is necessary to disentangle what expressions are…

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Exciting new research about microexpressions!

Although microexpressions are analogous to longer-lasting ones in many ways, it is in their differences that much of the latest exciting science dwells. Humintell’s Drs. David Matsumoto and Hyisung Hwang recently published an analysis of a major study, Shen et al. (2016), which sought to contrast fleeting microexpressions from those that lasted longer than 200…

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