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Believability in Sender Demeanor

New research, conducted by Human Communication Research , suggests that sender demeanor may be the most influential source of variation in deception detection judgments.

Sender Demeanor is the difference in the believability of a message sent by a “sender”, which is independent of the actual honesty of the message.

In this study, published in Human Communication Research, Volume 37, Number 3, July 2011, sender demeanor induction explained as much as 98% of the variance in detection [of deception] accuracy.

Does the person not the message have a greater impact on what one believes?

Three additional studies investigated the behavior profiles of believable senders.  The results suggest a strong impact of sender effects in deception detection.

Do you think that it is too early in the research stage to say that a sender’s believability is the most influential source of variation in deception detection?

New Emotion Detection Tool?

Genevalunch.com just announced this new technology brought to us by nViso . According to their website, this Lausanna based start-up has made a technical breakthrough.

One of 28 companies, nViso , an advanced facial imaging company, received finding form the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2009 to encourage innovation in the wake of the global economic turndown.

Tim Llewellynn, co-founder of nViso, purported that their software goes a step further than other facial recognition software with, “exact emotional intelligence gathered in real-time.

The company claims that their facial imaging software, “is able to accurately detect and decode facial micro-expressions and eye movements.” They use artificial intelligence and machine learning to decipher human emotions in a cost effective manner. This could be an alternative to the current more expensive brain imaging techniques.

Science of Sex Appeal: Is Your Face Attractive?

The Discovery Channel has suggested that most of us are drawn to the opposite sex who got a strong dose of sex hormones during puberty.

Why is this?  A very masculine face in a man suggests high levels of testosterone and a woman’s face that is feminine suggests that she has high levels of estrogen and progesterone signaling a healthy reproductive system.  This indicates good health and fertility.

Check out the video below, which delineates the process sex hormones have on individuals: