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Media

Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Deceptive or Delusional?

July 24, 2009

I think Senator DeMint is either delusional or intentionally deceptive. And I think he is fundamentally wrong about his core idea. It isn’t freedom on the line. Freedom doesn’t need to be saved. I see plenty of the love for it in the sacrifices made by our soldiers, teachers, business owners and civil servants at every level. It’s the future that is on the line.

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Dr. K Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle

July 16, 2009

I got a nice mention in a wonderful article by Sarah Felix in today’s online San Francisco Chronicle. You can read it by following this link

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Reading Facial Expressions on TV’s ‘Lie To Me’

April 10, 2009

Today is the final post in a three post series about reading body language and facial expressions, like they do on the TV show ‘Lie To Me.’

I think the TV show is way more hype than having to do with reality. It’s entertaining enough (I really enjoy it!) but when I look in it’s face, the expression I see there is not honest.

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Interpreting Body Language & Facial Expressions Like On TV

April 8, 2009

My concern with facial expressions is that they can mean other things. Observing and hallucinating on their meaning may take a person out of authentic connection mode and into a mode of behavior that is offputting and unpleasant to be around. What kind of non verbal messages might that send?

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Dr. K quoted in Good Housekeeping Article on Difficult People

April 6, 2009

Sarah Felix has written a helpful article in Good Housekeeping, titled Dealing with Difficult People: 17 Tips to Keep You Sane, in which she offers a number of useful strategies to ‘end the emotional tug-of-war, once and for all.’ She quotes me in several places, but the first quote is the most potent idea, and it’s a [...]

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Can You Read Too Much Into Facial Expressions?

April 6, 2009

I’ve thought for a very long time that body language generalizations aren’t all that valid because they take too little into account. I’ve known some good liars and bad in my day, and I don’t believe these ‘reading’ methods actually work, unless you are highly trained in reading microexpressions as Dr. Ekman is, for anything except the most rudimentary and obvious emotions…happy, mad, sad, glad, contempt and disgust.

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Dr. K’s Newest Rock n’ Roll Single A Huge Hit!

April 1, 2009

While you may know Dr. Rick Kirschner as a speaker, trainer, coach and blogger, you may not know that he’s been a performing musician for many years.

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Dr. K Quoted In Canada On Couples That Compete

March 6, 2009

Prior to Oscar night, I was interviewed and later quoted in an article by Canadian writer Joanne Richard on the competition that happens in couples. The knowledge that BrAngelina would be attending, both parts of the power couple with nominations, was what started it.

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