Archive for July, 2019
Research Into Pacing
There’s some suspicion among researchers that pacing of behavior is associated with a feeling of closeness and trust, and that it makes it easier for people to talk with one another. Have you ever heard of such an idea?
The UK-based Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) is currently funding Ph.D.-level research into “nonverbal mimicry.”
My research aims to find out whether it is possible that if the interviewer was properly trained in mimicry they could use it as an information elicitation technique.
By the end of 2019 I will have completed the first experimental study of my PhD. Results of this study will illuminate whether nonverbal mimicry does increase according to relationship closeness. I will then be carrying out my second study, based entirely on the outcome of study one.
Is nonverbal mimicry an important tool in eliciting information?
Metaprograms of Movement
Science tells us that we can read a person’s behavior and use that information to predict what they’ll do. Who’d have thought it?
How Cell Phone Movements Can Assess Your Personality
The researchers who wrote the referenced article correlated cell phone call logs and accelerometer movement logs with Big Five personality assessments of their subjects and found some interesting things. For example, “sensitive or neurotic females often checked their phones or moved with their phones regularly well past midnight. Sensitive or neurotic males did the opposite.”
If you haven’t looked into the Big Five Personality Traits as an addition to the meta-programs you already work with, I’ll suggest looking into them. They are:
- Openness to new experiences;
- Conscientiousness;
- Extraversion;
- Agreeableness; and
- Neuroticism.
(See how the first letters spell “OCEAN” to help you remember?)
My intro to them was the book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, by Sam Gosling, Ph.D. It’s worth the read.
That Guy Looks Fishy To Me
An early depiction of hypnosis on TV. Original air date September 22, 1959. Based on an allegedly-true story, as all of the episodes of this show were.