We use our faces to communicate, but our facial expressions may not always come across the way we think they do. And we may be just as wrong when reading the faces of others, a study says. "Many ...

If you were to travel anywhere in the globe -- even to visit remote tribes who have scant contact with the larger world -- would people be able to read your emotions from your facial expressions ...

Do people from different cultures express emotions differently? A new paper says yes: Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. But as far as I can see the data show that at least ...

New research shows that emotional posts help people find community and feel better, but they often fail to persuade others.

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at the picture above. Do you think the ...

Great apes copy facial expressions of other apes with exact detail, a behavior that may reveal how human communication first ...

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