Blog Posts Tagged With FaceReader
16 May
human behavior research
Emotion
How do people with antisocial and psychopathic traits process emotions?
Understanding more about emotion processing in people with antisocial personality disorder and psychopathic traits can improve interventions. The team of researcher Kyranides studied how facial mimicry can help.
11 May
human behavior research
Emotion
How emotions are made
Neuroscience research in the past decades has shown that our brain gives meaning to our experiences and sensations, through concepts such as emotions.
06 Apr
human behavior research
Psychology
Facts about FaceReader and automated facial expression analysis
There have been many statements about using automated facial expression analysis to assess emotions. Let’s take a look at what is actually possible and impossible to do with FaceReader, through a game of true and false.
24 Mar
human behavior research
Psychology
How to study human behavior
Many people are fascinated by human behavior. Why do we act the way we do? How is our behavior influenced, or measured? And why is behavioral change so difficult?
15 Mar
human behavior research
Emotion
How do people with Parkinson's disease express emotions?
A mask-like facial expression is an early symptom of Parkinson's disease. How can we understand the relation between changed facial expressions and disease severity? Researcher Yang and their team used FaceReader to find out.
15 Feb
human behavior research
Psychology
Understanding infants’ social and moral development
At the Centre of Infant Cognition at UBC in Vancouver, researchers conduct independent studies as well as participate in ManyBabies projects to further understand the development of moral and social behaviors of infants.
21 Dec
human behavior research
Emotion
How the ability to manage emotions shapes perception of risk
Can our ability to recognize and control our emotions determine how dangerous we perceive certain hazards to be and whether or not we think we are at risk?
04 Oct
human behavior research
Psychology
The importance of measuring infant behavior for early diagnosis of autism
Most efforts to detect autism before the age of two rely on parental reports rather than infant behavior.
22 Sep
human behavior research
Psychology
The importance of a multi-method approach in infant behavior research
The study of infant behavior provides incredible insight into the field of psychology, developmental biology, neuroscience, and other social and life sciences.
30 Aug
human behavior research
Emotion
How music affects children’s development
Researchers dove deeper into building an understanding of the relationship between music and emotions and how music affects children’s development.