Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for surveillance, hiring, market research, and more. But a new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest finds that facial movements are an inexact gauge of a person’s feelings, behaviors or intentions. More
Analyses of financial data from more than 2,000 people show that spending in certain categories signals personality traits. More
A sample of research exploring the effects of worry in daily life, the role of learning capacity in CBT for depression, and self-injury and suicidal behavior in girls. More
A sample of research exploring rationality in joint action; parenting, poverty, and brain connectivity; coupling between vocabulary and reasoning; and links between visual attention and perceived emotion. More
A sample of research exploring depression and autobiographical memory, early response and sudden gains in a depression intervention, inflammatory proteins as predictors of change in depressive symptoms, and emotion displays and relationship formation in anxiety disorder. More
A sample of research exploring memory for repeated images, stability and change in implicit bias, and mixed emotions toward racial out-groups. More
