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Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World

I've never agonized so much over a blog review of a book.  Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World had a weird effect on me.  I read the book several months ago, and am only now blogging it.  What gives?First, it made me very angry.  These guys are at MIT, and they didn't know that if you want to know if a person is open to persuasion, or if they like you, you look at body language and other physical signs of arousal like dilated pupils, flared nostrils, flushing skin? As a taxpayer, it infuriates me that I subsidize worthless disciplines like Women's Studies, African American Studies, and Political Science.  But MIT?!  These people are really so huge morons?They think that it's a revolutionary discovery observing sympathetic arousal is how one discovers honest signals?  But that's the point of the book...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).