Using Smartphone Data to Read People’s Personalities

For many people around the globe, smartphones are an integral and indispensable part of their daily lives. Rarely more than an arm’s length away, these sensor-rich devices are easily used to collect rich and extensive records of their users’ behaviors. Some argue that this poses serious threats to individual privacy. But what can smartphone data…

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Can Zoom Fatigue Be Related To Your Personality?

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we’re on video calls more than ever before – and many are finding it exhausting. There have been many articles addressing this “zoom fatigue” and the potential reasons for it. One reason often cited is the mental work and effort it takes to process nonverbal cues like facial expressions, the…

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How to Lift Your Mood – Try Smiling!

Image by M@rg via Flickr Time Magazine article that highlights the journal article “Spontaneous Facial Expressions of Emotion of Congenitally and Noncongenitally Blind Individuals” from the January issue of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1871687,00.html