Facial expressions arise from brain networks that encode slow, context-rich meaning and fast muscle control on different time scales, keeping smiles and threats socially precise.

Sometimes, people can't help but outwardly show their emotions. And people whose faces give away every emotion they feel ...

Facial expressions offer potent displays of emotions and to a large extent are universally understood. Yet the social context or framing around an expression is important and can color how we ...

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A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology has found that approach–avoidance behavior in a virtual ...

New research recently published in Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests children’s gender biases can be reflected in their facial emotional expressions. Psychology professor Doug VanderLaan and his ...

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Researchers have developed a new method to analyze facial expressions, as part of efforts to better understand animal communication. Researchers have developed a new method to analyse facial ...

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