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July 29, 2010

Poker face science

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 5:00 am
The best 'poker face' is probably not a neutral expression, but a happy one, as it led to a greater number of opponent mistakes in a study just published in PLoS One.The research looked at how poker playing was influenced by the emotional expression of opponents and discovered that blank and threatening expressions had little effect, but a positive expression tends to lull people into a false sen

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