A new study challenges the longstanding belief that fear is primarily communicated through facial expressions, showing instead that context plays the dominant role in real-life fear recognition. By ...

A study by scientists from the University of the Southwest Pacific Network and Humboldt University of Berlin has shown that ...

Cats have become one of the most beloved pets. Cats and dogs fill homes worldwide with companionship and love. And yet, they ...

Smiles do more than express emotion - new research shows they can unconsciously influence trust and shape how we perceive ...

It was the game of facial expressions for Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, and one sparked a new meme.

When I started horse riding lessons at the age of eight, I was told that if a horse had its ears forward that was a good sign, and if horse had its ears back it wasn't happy. Those riding lessons ...

In our increasingly digital world, the emergence of applications designed to detect and track micro-expressions is gaining momentum. These innovative tools have the potential to radically transform ...

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, ...