REAL OR FAKE EMOTIONS, CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?

People express emotions in very different ways, via non-verbally and verbally expressions. An Italian person will most likely express 'sad' emotions in another way than for example an American person will do. Moreover, all the reality TV programs at the moment contain a wide variety of peope all expressing different emotions, but nobody actually knows if these emotions are real or fake. There are major differences in the realness of emotional expressions. In an interview conducted for the course Business Information Technology, Martijn Goudbeek explains how to gather and detect realistic and unrealistic emotions.  

Martijn Goudbeek, working at the department of Communication and Information Science at Tilburg University, is specialized in the production and perception of emotion, nonverbal communication, speech perception and speech acquisition, and the production of referring expressions.

Watch the following video as a result of our interview and learn how to gather realistic emotions.

Talk to you again soon!