Today you’ll learn about how using a face in marketing makes people more likely to align themselves with social causes, how scientists in China have developed a pair of glasses that use ultrasound technology to measure our eyes blinking, and how cats can distinguish between speech directed at them and other humans.
The Power of the Face
- “The Power of Putting a Human Face on Social Causes” by Association for Psychological Science
- “Helping Fellow Beings: Anthropomorphized Social Causes and the Role of Anticipatory Guilt” by Hee-Kyung Ahn, Hae Joo Kim, and Pankaj Aggarwal (PAYWALLED)
- “Reasons Why Putting a Human Face in Your Marketing Campaign Is an Essential Strategy” by Alan Draper
Ultrasound Glasses
- “New Technology Detects Eye Blinking With Ultrasound” by Melisha Yashinski
- “MEMS ultrasonic transducers for safe, low-power and portable eye-blinking monitoring” by Sheng Sun, Jianyuan Wang, Menglun Zhang, Yuan Ning, Dong Ma, Yi Yuan, Pengfei Niu, Zhicong Rong, Zhuochen Wang & Wei Pang
Listening Cat
- “Cat got your tongue: Cats distinguish between speech directed at them and humans” by SPRINGER NATURE
- “Cats can tell when speech is directed at them” By Andrei Ionescu
- “Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)” by Charlotte de Mouzon et al. (PAYWALL)
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