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Why There’s a Sassy Wombat on Your Phone
The Wall Street Journal: Text messages just don’t convey thoughts and emotions well enough for 2013. When Tanya Sichynsky wants to tell friends she’s tired, the 19-year-old University of Georgia student doesn’t text anymore. She
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Poker Players’ Arms Give Away Their Hands
Scientific American: A good “poker face” can hide the quality of your cards. But your arms might still be giving away your hands. That’s the finding of a study to come out in the journal
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Calling a Bluff: Is It All in the Arms?
The Huffington Post: In a recent Radiolab interview, Duke talked about how she weighs risk and certainty and doubt in deciding to hold or fold. It’s largely math, but not the straightforward odds of drawing
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Calling a Bluff: Is It All In the Arms?
Annie Duke was on track for a promising career in psycholinguistics, when she abruptly abandoned the academic life for the high-stakes world of poker. That was two decades ago, and since then she has won
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You Can Smell Other People’s Emotions, and They’re Contagious
Forbes: Emotions are the primary driver of our behavior. Everything we experience in the world around us—no matter how small—generates an emotional response that motivates action. Sometimes emotions move us to act before we even
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We Are What We Smell
Scientific American: Pheromones: they’re those chemical signals often associated with attraction. But there are many chemical signals we give off—including ones that might signal alarm, aggression or other emotions. For example, take fear. If sweat
