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Research on First Impressions & Tone of Voice
July 7, 2014
In a follow-up to my previous post on how important a negotiator's tone of voice is (Quick Tip: Hostage Negotiator's Tone of Voice), I came across this: How To Make The Perfect First Impression (According To Science) The tone and tenor of your voice also plays a significant role in determining what kind of first impression you make on others. A Scottish study found that participants overwhelmingly agreed, based on hearing a subject's voice, on a number of personality judgements, including trustworthiness,...
July 7, 2014
In a follow-up to my previous post on how important a negotiator's tone of voice is (Quick Tip: Hostage Negotiator's Tone of Voice), I came across this: How To Make The Perfect First Impression (According To Science) The tone and tenor of your voice also plays a significant role in determining what kind of first impression you make on others. A Scottish study found that participants overwhelmingly agreed, based on hearing a subject's voice, on a number of personality judgements, including trustworthiness,...
Texas Bar Corporate Counsel Section: Online Mediation
June 23, 2014
Business Law Section and Corporate Counsel Section Thursday, June 26, 2014 Austin Convention Center, Room 19AB 8:50...
June 23, 2014
Business Law Section and Corporate Counsel Section Thursday, June 26, 2014 Austin Convention Center, Room 19AB 8:50...
Two New Books on Changing the Brain Through Learning
June 13, 2014
Does resolving conflict require learning? Typically, yes, of course. If no one in the dispute learns anything new, the conflict will probably remain unresolved. That's one of the reasons learning is often mentioned here at BonP. In May, I attended the 26th annual convention of the Association of Psychological Science; some of the presentations I chose among the multitude offered included learning as a focus. One of my favorite programs, and certainly the most entertaining, was one copresented...
June 13, 2014
Does resolving conflict require learning? Typically, yes, of course. If no one in the dispute learns anything new, the conflict will probably remain unresolved. That's one of the reasons learning is often mentioned here at BonP. In May, I attended the 26th annual convention of the Association of Psychological Science; some of the presentations I chose among the multitude offered included learning as a focus. One of my favorite programs, and certainly the most entertaining, was one copresented...
5 Ways Computers Are Revolutionizing the Legal Profession
June 10, 2014
Northwestern University law professor John O. McGinnis, writing in the latest issue of City Journal, explores how the rise of machine intelligence is disrupting and transforming the legal profession. In the journal, which is published by the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, Mr. McGinnis identifies five areas of the law that “face encroachment” by computers: 1) E-discovery is the area “ripest for computational transformation,” he says: 2) The rise of computation in legal search...
June 10, 2014
Northwestern University law professor John O. McGinnis, writing in the latest issue of City Journal, explores how the rise of machine intelligence is disrupting and transforming the legal profession. In the journal, which is published by the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, Mr. McGinnis identifies five areas of the law that “face encroachment” by computers: 1) E-discovery is the area “ripest for computational transformation,” he says: 2) The rise of computation in legal search...
Inside the Strange New World of DIY Brain Stimulation
June 8, 2014
Entrepreneurs are starting to get in on the action. A company called foc.us has already planted a flag with a commercial brain-stimulation headset released last year. It’s marketed as a gadget for videogamers looking to improve their skills, thus skirting the need for FDA approval. The first batch of 3,000 sold out in just a few months. So did the second. With easy access to the research, the equipment, and each other, self-experimenters aren’t consulting their doctors or waiting for scientific...
June 8, 2014
Entrepreneurs are starting to get in on the action. A company called foc.us has already planted a flag with a commercial brain-stimulation headset released last year. It’s marketed as a gadget for videogamers looking to improve their skills, thus skirting the need for FDA approval. The first batch of 3,000 sold out in just a few months. So did the second. With easy access to the research, the equipment, and each other, self-experimenters aren’t consulting their doctors or waiting for scientific...
The Unfinished Science Behind the New Wave of Electrical Brain Stimulation
June 8, 2014
Ever since the physician Scribonius Largus slapped an electric torpedo fish on the forehead of a headache sufferer in the early days of the Roman empire, electricity has been pursued as a cure for a seemingly endless variety of ailments–by serious scientists and profiteering quacks alike. The latest chapter in this long and colorful history (see sidebar below) involves something called transcranial direct current stimulation, in which a small electric current is delivered to the brain through electrodes...
June 8, 2014
Ever since the physician Scribonius Largus slapped an electric torpedo fish on the forehead of a headache sufferer in the early days of the Roman empire, electricity has been pursued as a cure for a seemingly endless variety of ailments–by serious scientists and profiteering quacks alike. The latest chapter in this long and colorful history (see sidebar below) involves something called transcranial direct current stimulation, in which a small electric current is delivered to the brain through electrodes...
Incredible 3-D Map Shows 300,000 Molecules in a Single Synapse
June 7, 2014
Synapses are the key to communication inside the brain. These microscopic gaps are where signals jump from one neuron to another....
June 7, 2014
Synapses are the key to communication inside the brain. These microscopic gaps are where signals jump from one neuron to another....
Biologists Find New Rules for Life at the Edge of Chaos
June 6, 2014
In the space between order and chaos, a zone usually described with the mathematics of impending avalanches and crystallizing...
June 6, 2014
In the space between order and chaos, a zone usually described with the mathematics of impending avalanches and crystallizing...
What Happens When a Neurosurgeon Removes Your Hippocampus
June 6, 2014
Until the past few decades, neuroscientists had one way to plumb the human brain: wait for disaster to strike people and, if the victims pulled through, see how their minds worked differently afterward. These poor men and women endured strokes, seizures, saber gashes, botched surgeries, and accidents so horrific that their survivals seemed little short of miracles. To say these people “survived,” though, doesn’t quite capture the truth. Their bodies survived, but their minds didn’t quite;...
June 6, 2014
Until the past few decades, neuroscientists had one way to plumb the human brain: wait for disaster to strike people and, if the victims pulled through, see how their minds worked differently afterward. These poor men and women endured strokes, seizures, saber gashes, botched surgeries, and accidents so horrific that their survivals seemed little short of miracles. To say these people “survived,” though, doesn’t quite capture the truth. Their bodies survived, but their minds didn’t quite;...
Left Brain, Right Brain: Two Sides, Always Working Together
June 5, 2014
And although it is true that the left hemisphere controls speech and plays a major role in grammar and comprehension, the right hemisphere plays a key role not only in our comprehending implied meaning but also in our understanding and producing verbal metaphors and humor, and it is largely responsible for helping us to decipher the meaning of changes in speaking tone, such as the rising tone at the end of a spoken question. And both hemispheres play critical roles in extracting meaning in general....
June 5, 2014
And although it is true that the left hemisphere controls speech and plays a major role in grammar and comprehension, the right hemisphere plays a key role not only in our comprehending implied meaning but also in our understanding and producing verbal metaphors and humor, and it is largely responsible for helping us to decipher the meaning of changes in speaking tone, such as the rising tone at the end of a spoken question. And both hemispheres play critical roles in extracting meaning in general....
