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ANDREW PIERCE: Eyewitness to a bout of Boris Johnson baloney 

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Among the most affecting passages in investigative journalist Tom Bower’s new biography of Boris Johnson was the story of how Boris’s one-time mistress, Petronella Wyatt, miscarried their baby in November 2004. The future Prime Minister, we read, sat with Wyatt in the hospital and grieved with her. Yet what will, perhaps, have raised a few … Read more

Scientists say it is ‘completely baloney’ that you can read people’s emotions from their expressions

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NEVER trust a person’s face: Scientists say it is ‘completely baloney’ that you can read people’s emotions from their expressions Scientists analysed muscle movement in the face connected to specific feelings They found attempts to detect emotions based on these were usually wrong Research carried out by Prof Aleix Martinez at Ohio State University, US  … Read more