Facial Microexpressions

An excerpt from livescience.com: Split-second facial expressions made by others—and the feelings they betray—might go unnoticed by your conscious mind, but apparently they do register subliminally. Reading these subtle clues in faces can guide the brain, resulting in...

Ichiro Quotes

On this blog there have been quotes from Rob Zombie and Donald Rumsfeld, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Bruce Lee. Now, we can add Ichiro Suzuki, of the Seattle Mariners. Slate.com has an interesting article describing some of the weird things he has said (below is...

Evaluating Outcomes in Schools

Here is an excerpt from Charles Wheelan discussing the difficulty in assessing school outcomes:We don’t really even know which schools are good schools….Think of it this way: If a golf pro gives Tiger Woods a lesson, and a different golf pro gives me a...

Priming

An excerpt from the NY Times:In a recent experiment, psychologists at Yale altered people’s judgments of a stranger by handing them a cup of coffee. The study participants, college students, had no idea that their social instincts were being deliberately manipulated....