Is Deception ‘All in the Mind’?
For those of you – like me – interested in the heady mix of lie-detection and body language, there was a great piece on BBC Radio 4′s All in the Mind last week. Here’s the blurb. “Trying to spot when somebody is telling lies has probably preoccupied mankind since the earliest humans. Who’s eaten more than their fair share of seeds and berries; who’s...
Read MoreThe Body Language of Emoticons
Is Paul Ekman wrong? Paul who? Paul Ekman – the psychology professor who discovered that the facial expressions of emotion are universal across human cultures and thus biological in origin. This was big news at a time when most anthropologists believed that all expressions of emotion were culturally determined. Ekman found that at least six expressions were universal – those...
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