David Matsumoto, PhD, is an internationally acclaimed author and psychologist. He received his BA from the University of Michigan in 1981 with High Honors in Psychology and Japanese. He subsequently earned his MA (1983) and PhD (1986) in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently professor of psychology and director of the Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory at San Francisco State University, where he has been since 1989. He is also director of Humintell, LLC, a company that provides research, consultation, and training on nonverbal behavioral analysis and cross-cultural adaptation.
Dr. Matsumoto has studied culture, emotion, social interaction and communication for more than 30 years. His books include well-known titles such as Culture and Psychology, the Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology, and Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology. He is the recipient of many awards and honors in the field of psychology, including being named a G. Stanley Hall lecturer by APA. He is the series editor for Cambridge University Press' series on Culture and Psychology, and former Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Hyisung C. Hwang, PhD, is adjunct faculty at San Francisco State University. Her research interests are emotion, nonverbal behaviors, facial expressions, and deception. She is the author of numerous scientific articles, book chapters, and conference presentations on these topics. She is also co-editor of Nonverbal Communication: Science and Applications.
Mark G. Frank, PhD, is a professor and director of the Communication Science Center at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and is also the sole proprietor of Mark G. Frank, LLC.
Dr. Frank received his PhD in social psychology from Cornell University in 1989. Afterward he received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health to do postdoctoral research with Dr. Paul Ekman in the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School. In 1992 he joined the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he worked for 4 years until he joined the communication department at Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 2005 he accepted a position in his hometown at the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo, where he created and directs the Communication Science Center.
He has published numerous research papers on facial expressions, emotion, interpersonal deception, and also violence in extremist groups. He has had research funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Defense to examine deception, aggression, and hidden emotion behaviors in checkpoint, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism situations. He is also the co-developer of a patented automated computer system to read facial expressions, for which he won a Visionary Innovator Award from the University at Buffalo.
He has used these findings to lecture, consult with and train virtually all U.S. Federal Law Enforcement/Intelligence Agencies, as well as local/state and select foreign agencies such as CSIS (Canada), the Australian Federal Police, and Scotland Yard (UK). He is also one of the original members and senior fellow of the FBI's Terrorism Research and Analysis Project.
He has presented briefings on deception and counter-terrorism to the U.S. Congress as well as the National Academies of Sciences. He has also given workshops to the U.S. Federal Judiciary, various state courts, and foreign judges and magistrates. He has also presented to various business groups as well.
Finally, he has appeared in more than 100 print, radio, and television appearances to talk about his work, including The New Yorker Magazine, Time Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, CNN, Fox News Channel, CNBC, National Public Radio, The Learning Channel, the Discovery Channel, the Oprah Show, the CBC, BBC, London Weekend Television, the Australian Today Show, the Sydney Morning Herald, and ABC Radio National, among others.
