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Today you\u2019ll 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.\xa0

The Power of the Face\xa0

• \u201cThe Power of Putting a Human Face on Social Causes\u201d by Association for Psychological Science
  • https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/please-feed-me-the-power-of-putting-a-human-face-on-social-causes.html
• \u201cHelping Fellow Beings: Anthropomorphized Social Causes and the Role of Anticipatory Guilt\u201d by Hee-Kyung Ahn, Hae Joo Kim, and Pankaj Aggarwal (PAYWALLED)
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613496823
• \u201cReasons Why Putting a Human Face in Your Marketing Campaign Is an Essential Strategy\u201d by Alan Draper
  • https://www.business2community.com/marketing/reasons-why-putting-a-human-face-in-your-marketing-campaign-is-an-essential-strategy-02104065

Ultrasound Glasses\xa0

• \u201cNew Technology Detects Eye Blinking With Ultrasound\u201d by Melisha Yashinski
  • https://sciworthy.com/new-technology-detects-eye-blinking-with-ultrasound/
• \u201cMEMS ultrasonic transducers for safe, low-power and portable eye-blinking monitoring\u201d by Sheng Sun, Jianyuan Wang, Menglun Zhang, Yuan Ning, Dong Ma, Yi Yuan, Pengfei Niu, Zhicong Rong, Zhuochen Wang & Wei Pang
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-022-00396-w

Listening Cat\xa0

• \u201cCat got your tongue: Cats distinguish between speech directed at them and humans\u201d by SPRINGER NATURE
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/968597
• \u201cCats can tell when speech is directed at them\u201d By Andrei Ionescu
  • https://www.earth.com/news/cats-can-tell-when-speech-is-directed-at-them/
• \u201cDiscrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)\u201d by Charlotte de Mouzon et al. (PAYWALL)
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-022-01674-w

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