Vex Appeal is a weblog and collection of projects by Guy Parsons, a game designer, online community and digital strategy dude in London, England. Read more about the saucy butcher boy here.
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Back soon... Free Moshi Monsters Codes Spokeo... or spookeo, more like I'm Prove Very Where J.C Leyendecker and Team Fortress 2 Train of thought "Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin..." Links for FAME people They Tell Stories Ffffudging it slightly
Game face
Saturday, November 03, 2007
A quick little game that challenges you to identify the facial expressions that appear for a few milliseconds. I did surprisingly well - 9/10 - so I'm not sure what that means! It's based around the work of "that guy from Blink" who can read people's emotions amazingly well by focusing on the expressions that flash across their face very quickly.
Incidentally, this article may have crossed your feedreader recently:
One exercise shows a grid of faces, with 15 of them frowning and one smiling. The player must find the smiling face as quickly as possible... the group that played the "find the smile" exercise reported feeling less stressed, had higher self esteem, made more sales, and were rated as being more confident in their phone calls. Most remarkably, said Balwin, they had 17 percent lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.But you can actually play it online at Mindhabits.com! I mean the presentation is pretty meh and it's too big for my browser window and won't let me scroll and so on and so forth, but hey, check it out. I'd like to say I'm approaching a Zen state after 15 minutes of playing earlier, but at this exact moment I'm feeling more like carving out my eyeballs with rusty teaspoons, so best check back with me in another six days - unless I've become a Buddhist monk by then. Or actually have done the rusty teaspoons thing.
Labels: cognition, emotion, games, psychology