Month: October 2020

Natural Leaders: Some Interlocutors Elicit Greater Convergence Across Conversations and Across Characteristics

Abstract Are there individual tendencies in convergence, such that some speakers consistently converge more than others? Similarly, are there natural “leaders,” speakers with whom others converge more? Are such tendencies consistent across different linguistic characteristics? We use the Switchboard Corpus to perform a large‐scale convergence study of speakers in multiple conversations with different interlocutors, across […]

Published on October 11, 2020

My ACE Evolution: Nancy McCarthy

Meet Nancy, she’s been an ACE Certified Health Coach, ACE Certified Group Fitness and Personal Trainer for 35 years. This is her ACE Evolution…. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering […]

Published on October 10, 2020

Nerve cell activity shows how confident we are

Should I or shouldn’t I? The activity of individual nerve cells in the brain tells us how confident we are in our decisions. The result is unexpected – the researchers were actually on the trail of a completely different evaluation mechanism. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a […]

Published on October 9, 2020