Do you hear a distant melody that nobody else can hear? Intuition may lead people toward a belief in the divine and help explain why some people have more faith in God than others (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows).
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You think DRIVING is dangerous? How about CROSSING THE STREET? If you’re a pedestrian, you should know this: in the past year, for the first time in four years, pedestrian deaths rose exponentially.
The problem is that people are doing too many OTHER things when they should be looking and listening for cars. They’re texting (illegal to do while driving in most states, but not illegal while crossing the street) and their listening to music on their ear buds or talking on their cell phones.
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Facial expressions have been called the "universal language of emotion," but people from different cultures perceive happy, sad or angry facial expressions in unique ways. In some cultures, smiling at a person you don’t know well (such as a clerk in a shop or someone on the street) makes you seem gauche and even rude.
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The words people use are like fingerprints that can reveal their relationships, honesty, or their status in a group. Scientists are using linguistic software to analyze pronouns, articles, prepositions and a handful of other small function words. Social psychologist James W. Pennebaker says, "Using computerized text analyses on hundreds of thousands of letters, poems, books, blogs, Tweets, conversations and other texts, it is possible to begin to read people’s hearts and minds in ways they can’t do themselves.
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