It’s true, we’re not the most physically expressive bunch of people on the planet.  But there was an interesting case study in body language last year thanks to two of our dourest political operatives.  And to make it all the more juicy, it was caught on camera for all to see.  I’m talking about the [...]

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 [...]

Last Saturday I delivered a workshop called Lies and Damned Lied: How to be a Human Lie Detector at Queen’s University.  About thirty students turned up to learn about the psychology of deception and practice their new-found skills on each other through a variety of games and role-plays. I used a number of web resources [...]