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August 2, 2010

That's not a poker face, this is a poker face

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 2:00 pm
What does your poker face look like? If it's the traditional, stern, emotionless expression, you may want to consider practising a new one. Erik Schlicht and colleagues report that a friendly, trustworthy face is more likely to influence your opponents, leading them to think that you've got a good hand - that you're not bluffing.Schlicht's team had 14 relative novices play hundreds of one-shot ro

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July 29, 2010

Poker face science

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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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