Blink

His hair is straight and parted on the left. His face has the hauteur of privilege. “Mr. Philby,” a repor ...

said. On the screen, Philby is answering another question: “In the second place, the Burgess-Maclean affair has rais ...

immediately and directly at him or her because by looking at the face, we can know — or, at least, we can know ...

4. A Man, a Woman, and a Light Switch The classic model for understanding what it means to lose the ...

but he has no intuition about things, so he needs me to define the world for him.” Klin, who bears a strik ...

experiment. They decided to show Peter a movie and then follow the direction of his eyes as he looked at ...

Klin had Peter put on a hat with a very simple, but powerful, eye-tracking device composed of two tiny ...

direction of Nick’s arm, because interpreting a pointing gesture requires, if you think about it, that ...

to their words and watch their eyes in order to pick up on all those expressive nuances that Ekman ...

used a part of their brain called the fusiform gyrus, which is an incredibly sophisticated piece of b ...

boarding mother’s hand to dress him, paying not the slightest attention to her.” So, when Peter looked ...

Martha’s, monitoring the emotional states of all three as the temperature in the room rises. But Peter? He star ...

with genuine respect. But because he lacks one very basic ability — the ability to mind-read — he can be pr ...

percent — go their whole career without ever firing at anyone, and those who do describe the experience as ...

just disappeared. I didn’t see Dan anymore, didn’t see anything else. All I could see was the suspect’s ...

When he started toward us, it was almost like it was in slow motion and everything went into a tight foc ...

know, but once I was up, I was hearing things again because I could hear brass still clinking on the ti ...

sacrificed in favor of heightened awareness of the threat directly in front of us. In a critical sense, t ...

“After 145,” Grossman says, “bad things begin to happen. Complex motor skills start to break down. Doin ...

emergency, people pick up the phone and cannot perform this most basic of functions. With their heart rat ...