


Effort Rewarded: Tools for Measuring Motivation
A job well done may be its own reward, but the mechanisms that drive humans to produce better results are far more complex. Much research has been devoted to the study of motivation and the psychophysiological processes that drive our behavior in pursuit of a goal,...
Eye-Catching: Mobile Tech Enhances Immersive Experiments
Freed from the limitations of stationary eye tracking technology, mobile eye tracking enables researchers to study their subjects while they perform a wide range of immersive tasks in natural settings.

Guilt Trips: Taking Measure of Our Moral Compass
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt” —Gertrude, William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” In Act 4 of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Hamlet’s mother Gertrude points out that the harder one tries to conceal guilt, the easier it is to...
Measuring Moods: Signals for Insight into Emotion
“Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?” Joy, an anthropomorphized manifestation of happiness, delivers this line at the opening of Pixar’s 2015 animated hit “Inside Out,” a film that explores the emotional struggles of its young...
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