The Power of the Face, Ultrasound Glasses, Listening Cat

Today you’ll learn about how using a face in marketing makes people more likely to align themselves with social causes, how scientists in China have developed a pair of glasses that use ultrasound technology to measure our eyes blinking, and how cats can distinguish between speech directed at them and other humans. The Power of the Face “The Power of Putting a Human Face on Social Causes” by Association for Psychological Sciencehttps://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/please-feed-me-the-power-of-putting-a-human-face-on-social-causes.html“Helping Fellow Beings: Anthropomorphized Social Causes and the Role of Anticipatory Guilt” by Hee-Kyung Ahn, Hae Joo Kim, and Pankaj Aggarwal (PAYWALLED)https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613496823“Reasons Why Putting a Human Face in Your Marketing Campaign Is an Essential Strategy” by Alan Draperhttps://www.business2community.com/marketing/reasons-why-putting-a-human-face-in-your-marketing-campaign-is-an-essential-strategy-02104065Ultrasound Glasses “New Technology Detects Eye Blinking With Ultrasound” by Melisha Yashinskihttps://sciworthy.com/new-technology-detects-eye-blinking-with-ultrasound/“MEMS ultrasonic transducers for safe, low-power and portable eye-blinking monitoring” by Sheng Sun, Jianyuan Wang, Menglun Zhang, Yuan Ning, Dong Ma, Yi Yuan, Pengfei Niu, Zhicong Rong, Zhuochen Wang & Wei Panghttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-022-00396-wListening Cat “Cat got your tongue: Cats distinguish between speech directed at them and humans” by SPRINGER NATUREhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/968597“Cats can tell when speech is directed at them” By Andrei Ionescuhttps://www.earth.com/news/cats-can-tell-when-speech-is-directed-at-them/“Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)” by Charlotte de Mouzon et al. (PAYWALL)https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-022-01674-wFollow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers.Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-power-of-the-face-ultrasound-glasses-listening-cat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.